This book provides a broad overview of the key concepts in public archaeology, a research
field that examines the relationship between archaeology and the public, in both theoretical …

This paper considers recent attempts within archaeology to create, integrate and interpret
digital data on an unprecedented scale—a movement that resonates with the much wider so …

Abstract Archaeologists in England and Wales have a long tradition of liaising with metal-
detectorists, particularly following the reform of Treasure law and advent of the Portable …

The Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), funded by English Heritage, systematically
collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 86,000 archaeological …

The twenty years following the mid-1990s witnessed a step change in the communication
landscape, which can be summarised under the label of new digital media. In this period …

Hobby metal detecting is a controversial subject. Legal and policy approaches differ widely
across national and regional contexts, and the attitudes of archaeologists and heritage …

This paper is a review and a critical evaluation of the development of (aspects of) legislation,
policy and practice regarding non-professional archaeological metal detecting in Flanders. It …

Much research on hobbyist metal detecting has either focused on the archaeological impact
only, conflated hobbyism with criminal activity (namely looting and illicit trade), or …

By considering monetization across the Iron Age and Roman periods and across the whole
of Temperate Europe some major developments become apparent. The spread of coinage …

Abstract In England and Wales there exists a corpus of unprovenanced and unrecorded
antiquities; a corpus adrift from archaeological context and now ebbing and flowing across …