David Connolly is a Scottish archaeologist who gets warm huggy feelings when he thinks of artefact hunters. He read a le Monde article written by a French archaeologist calling for a European initiative on metal detecting and decided a poll was needed on his archaeological forum. Somehow though I do not think he is thinking in "Europeen", there seems to me a couple of options missing.Poll: (Multiple answers allowed) In terms of the French call do you -
* Agree that all detecting should be banned - that will solve everything
* Agree that all detecting should be banned - but sites will still get nighthawked
* Disagree as it will only make nighthawking worse
* Disagree as it will ruin years of hard work and liason (sic)
* Don't know - but I feel that they are on the right lines
* Don't know - but I feel that they are not dealing with the real issues
For the record, I personally would not vote for any of those options, which seem intended to polarise the debate rather than furthering it.