On this occasion I looked to the pages of Treasure Hunting magazine 1978.
FROM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
YET ANOTHER SLUR.
As a devoted treasure hunter and reader of your magazine imagine my dismay when I read the article in The Westmoreland Gazette ‘Museums Slam Metal Detector Menace.’ This contains such mentions as ‘To combat this menace, the County Museums’ Joint Advisory Committee has decided to contact landowners warning them of the dangers to our heritage before they give permission for people to use metal detectors on their property….’
I noted from your past comments in Treasure Hunting that this is not the first slur against metal detecting and feel very strongly about the situation, but what can individuals do about it?
Editor’s response: Your letter Mr Hood is typical of many we have received complaining about the attitudes of local councils etc. We hope readers will find useful the article ‘Council bans. How to Protest.’
(As a ‘devoted treasure hunter’ I wonder if Mr Hood discarded non treasure items in the same way that we mere detectorists discard ring pulls and the like – in the dustbin of course.)
COVER GIRL APPRECIATED.
While appreciating your cover girl on the August issue of Treasure Hunting, I couldn’t help wondering where she would put her finds if she made them – or are you using your treasure hunters’ licence a little deviously? If she needs somebody to carry her trowel, please let me know!
(Was there a page three girl I wonder)
AND FINALLY – FROM NEWS AND VIEWS.
EDS HUNT MURDER CLUES.
A mystery surrounds two deaths that occurred in the Chadwell area of Essex recently when the body of fifty-three year old widow, Mrs Vera Bullock, was found bound and gagged in a cupboard and that of her twenty-nine year old nephew, Raymond Briggs found hanging from a tree in nearby woods.
Detectives are looking for the cardigan that Mr Briggs was wearing the day before his death and also a mortise key he was carrying. The East Essex Detector Society were able to help them by carrying out an inch-by-inch (although fruitless) search of the woods for the key.
(The search was a dead loss then.)
Chairman Joe.
