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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies Hi Jean-Christophe, here in the UK we have a big roblem with rogue metal-detectorists (called nighthawks) who think nothing of robbing archaelogical sites for their own gain, but equally so we have many people who use metal detectors, who do invaluable work in recovering metalwork that would otherwise be lost and many of which are more than willing to work side-by-side with archaeologists-only by encouraging people to come forward with their finds will they be recorded,to penalise honest people will only make the problem of nighthawking worse. Is there a big problem in France with some metal-detectorist robbing sites? if so, then punishing people who want to declare their artifacts wont make the problem go away. Authorities in most countries find it easier to prosecute honest people than trying to tackle the real problem-that is, those folks who dont want to declare what they find! How does French law operate in regards to farmers? as many in north-east France have collections of finds from the two world wars, that they find during ploughing-do these have to be declared? or as landowners do they get to keep them for their own private collections?