%0 Journal Article
%T The Complexities of Metal Detecting Policy and Practice: A Response to Samuel Hardy, ¡®Quantitative Analysis of Open-Source Data on Metal Detecting for Cultural Property¡¯ (Cogent Social Sciences 3, 2017)
%A Pieterjan Deckers
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%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2018-0019
%X In his paper ¡®Quantitative analysis of open-source data on metal detecting for cultural property¡¯, Samuel Hardy suggested that permissive policy is ineffective in minimizing the damage done to cultural heritage by non-professional metal detecting. This response paper contests the basic assumptions upon which this analysis is based. While Hardy¡®s comparative, quantitative approach is laudable, it is founded in a biased and simplistic outlook on the metal detecting phenomenon
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