Comments on: PAS – What to record?

By: Mat kent

Mat kent — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 13:35:10 +0000

In britain we are very lucky to have the freedom to enjoy our hobby , searching for , hopefully discovering , and being able to carefully handle, historic items, lost or hidden by our ancestors, and uncovering potential unknown inhabitation has been the greatest thrill and honour . For myself and my wife, Zoe , to be able to potentially find items of significance that could, further, help build the picture of our heritage and give us a better insight into our ancestors day to day lives , is reward enough and we couldn’t do this if we didn’t have the amazing resource that is the P.A.S scheme .

I know they struggle to keep up so it would be great if more resources could be made available to them for more F.L.Os or even people trained in specific areas such as artifacts or coins which may speed the process of recording up
But ultimately i think all recording should be done by F.L.O’s, self recording will never be feasible as it can be quite complicated to record items correctly
And i think we will end up with many wrongly recorded items

By: Steven Simmons

Steven Simmons — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:10:13 +0000

The FLO in Wiltshire is obviously overworked. I have in the past reported items from Roman, Saxon and medieval times and NONE have ever been recorded. About six months or so ago I made a conscious decision not to over burden the FLO any more. In my humble opinion the system is not fit for purpose.

By: MALCOLM TURFF

MALCOLM TURFF — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:13:14 +0000

in this digital age would it not be convenient and more encouraging to be able to report finds via email with accompanying photographs to the FLO. Who then if interested could contact the detectorist to further investigate the find.