And it's law for a reason. While interested hobbyists are often appreciated by archaeologists, there are quite a few people who are small-scale Schliemanns (htt

And it's law for a reason. While interested hobbyists are often appreciated by archaeologists, there are quite a few people who are small-scale Schliemanns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann#Criticism). And with metal detectors being rather cheap, the damages these people cause do add up.