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Hi all firstly I would like to thank Tafflaff, Neil, Proconsul and all the other DW mods, For making this page,
If any body that lives in the hereford area would like to join us we meet the last monday of the month, please have a look at our website just google hereford searchers we have some great talks coming up.

thanks again

Alun, Deadlock Ian radnor bandit Andy Da monkey

when i win the lottery i will move up there ,then ur in for a shock lol :D

We've even got our own beach waiting for Ya Badger ;)  Hereford on Sea :)

Thought the hereford club had been restarted last year ?

Best of luck.  ;D

I restarted Brecon Searchers MDC last March and its still going strong, although we do not turn away anyone visiting, at
present are not looking for new members.

im to independent ,free thinking and fast as flash for any club ;D,, but I do wish you well though.

Hey, Paul Peter Reavil the FLO is hoping to catch up with you can you give him a bell or email him.
cheers mucker.

im sure he is ;)

You have found some fantastic stuff in Herefordshire and some rare saxon stuff too think he just wants to record Paul.

What have I done to upset him Al. I have been leaving E-mails, Phoned and cold called 3 times since christmas and not one response. He has a load of my stuff to record and I have plenty more here at home. About time he had some help.  :'(

I went to his  office he is hard to get hold of.

if your trying to get hold of peter reavil. best of luck he used to be on top of everything,i dont know whether to much has been put on him.but he's pretty useless lately.i gave him a tiny silver seal matrice last year got one e mail and heard nothing since.

its 1 of the reasons why I don't bother,,you find something nice and hand it in you then don't see it for 12 months and usually does not appear on the pas site,,,if people are going to promote the pas site then it should do what it says it does,,my resect goes out to peter and to all flo,s as I feel there swimming against the tide a bit and my experience is that the pas site is as crooked as a dogs leg,people finding things then saying its from somewhere else,some not bothering to say where items are found at all etc,,some people just put a parish as a findspot ?  im not sure what can be gained when someone records a roman or medieval coin in a parish im sure???.............im sure some  people will say yes but a roman find in a parish proves they were there {does it?} in my experience if you look hard enough on any farm you will find a roman influence never mind a parish,,,as for medieval ,well the buggers were everywhere. ;D     

Try Kurt adams the glouster flo Paul he has some quick so shunggav says.

Kurt great guy if you go to his office at begging of the week he will do it straight away

nice one carling your bang on mate.at least we can carry on detecting and phase out the bollitics if we want to.

Carling,   don't know what part you're from but I can tell you, without any doubt, IF a Roman coin were found in my Parish it would make news head-lines in all the local papers.
Although I see your point. It wouldn't prove they were here. What Roman has been recorded around here is not pure but Romano which only proves an influence not a presence.

Val

The information you see on the PAS records open to the public aren't the detailed records they hold ??? older records just give "parish" the newer records give a 6 figure ref number but this is the reference is the centre of one square kilometre so that all finds within that square have the same number.
I obviously don't know but in my experience the majority of detectorists who record give the correct information, those who don't I would think are either detecting illegally and don't have permission to detect that land, don't want the the land owner to know what's been found or are just paranoid.
To many detectorists the importance is on the "thing" to archaeologists it's what the "thing" represents in terms of time and place, nobody cares if you've just found a rare Mary half groat that you've been wanting for 20 years but it does pin that place with usage in the Tudor period. Giving the wrong details is worse than not recording at all IMHO.

It seems that hereford has some of the latter detectorists Geoff which is a shame  >:(

Well said Chef. I will point out in addition that the system is seriously undermanned and under funded IMO as well. The only face for most detectorists is the FLO but would like an official explanation on why all finds are not displayed on the database and why a simplified version of the PAS Database is not available for the public. Paul it would be criminal to display exact grid references of all finds. Common sense tells you why.