Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades of Metal Detecting in Austria
Since metal detecting started in Austria in 1970, the National Heritage Agency (BDA) has focussed too much on prohibiting metal detecting. The strategy chosen, increasingly restrictive legislation, has turned out to be a failure. Rather than improving the protection of archaeological heritage from ‚...
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| description | Since metal detecting started in Austria in 1970, the National Heritage Agency (BDA) has focussed
too much on prohibiting metal detecting. The strategy chosen, increasingly restrictive legislation, has turned
out to be a failure. Rather than improving the protection of archaeological heritage from ‚unauthorised‘ metal
detecting, the ‚hobby‘ has grown steadily. Yet, the changes to the law have made protecting archaeology more
difficult and are restricting civil liberties, quite possibly making the law itself illegal. Five decades on, Austrian
archaeology isn‘t better off, but considerably worse, and it is mainly our attempts to prevent metal detecting
that are to blame. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-febca114b43e44139d2d43bc95b0cf1e2022-12-21T21:35:11ZengDe GruyterOpen Archaeology2300-65602016-12-012110.1515/opar-2016-0020opar-2016-0020Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades of Metal Detecting in AustriaKarl Raimund0School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Prifysgol Bangor University, College Road, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG, UKSince metal detecting started in Austria in 1970, the National Heritage Agency (BDA) has focussed too much on prohibiting metal detecting. The strategy chosen, increasingly restrictive legislation, has turned out to be a failure. Rather than improving the protection of archaeological heritage from ‚unauthorised‘ metal detecting, the ‚hobby‘ has grown steadily. Yet, the changes to the law have made protecting archaeology more difficult and are restricting civil liberties, quite possibly making the law itself illegal. Five decades on, Austrian archaeology isn‘t better off, but considerably worse, and it is mainly our attempts to prevent metal detecting that are to blame.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opar.2016.2.issue-1/opar-2016-0020/opar-2016-0020.xml?format=INTAustria archaeology metal detecting heritage law Denkmalschutzgesetz |
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| title | Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades
of Metal Detecting in Austria |
| title_full | Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades
of Metal Detecting in Austria |
| title_fullStr | Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades
of Metal Detecting in Austria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades
of Metal Detecting in Austria |
| title_short | Archaeological Responses to 5 Decades
of Metal Detecting in Austria |
| title_sort | archaeological responses to 5 decades of metal detecting in austria |
| topic | Austria archaeology metal detecting heritage law Denkmalschutzgesetz |
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