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Originally Posted by Max
Hi,
yes it is... and I say half states of EU have so restrictive rules on "treasures" that even go around with an MD in your hands can bring you easy to jail also! 
The archeo-guys and funny politicians know ZERO of reality but just of camel-butt-hairs-brushes maybe, and they're happy this way... so why they have change their mind !?
Just cause other half of EU have more liberal and realistic approach to treasure hunters and real heritage preservation ??? 
No... EU is something you can never say there's something homogeneous in e.g. laws... so what's good for me could be bad for you and maybe passable for someone else all that in the same EU!
What's that ? We have 1 coin and monetary system and 27 different set of rules !?
Seems like a big joke these guys at Bruxelles do and laugh at us, that's it!
I do agree, UK is THE ONE AND ONLY treasure hunters heaven! (and of course, a very fair country that treat citizens for what they are... not as childrens, as happens in many places...)
Where else you can go around without e.g. any document that say who are you without risk to pass some hour at local police station !?
Uk, I love that country. 
And ,of course, I like Ireland , expecially Aran islands...but for other reasons...
Kind regards,
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Hi Max,
"Where else you can go around without e.g. any document that say who are you without risk to pass some hour at local police station !?"
Most English-speaking countries you can walk the streets without ID documents... like Canada, USA, and Australia, New Zealand, and other places too. In most of Central and South America don't need to carry your ID with you in order to avoid risk of being sent to the police station. I suppose in much of the world it is safe to go around without ID documents... as long as a person is not creating problems.
But even these "free" countries have some poor treasure laws. The English treasure law is the best treasure law I have heard of:
"Pieces were just literally sat at the top of the soil, at the grass," said Ian Wykes, of the county council. He said the hoard had been unearthed by recent plowing".
In England a person can dig all the treasure and will be paid collector's value to give it to a museum. But what about other "free countries"? This treasure was "unearthed" in the grass from recent plowing. In a country where treasure hunting and metal detectors are illegal, a person walking through the field could find this treasure by accident. Maybe trip over a gold sword on the ground. If this kind of treasure was found in most other countries, we would never hear about it in the newspaper or see it in a museum. It would be hidden in the treasure hunter's secret cache or sold secretly to a collector. The idea that only government regulated Archaeologists can recover treasure seems like a sure way for a country to lose most national treasures found by secret treasure hunters. The English treasure law seems a very good way for a country to keep their national treasures.
PS. Does anybody know if dowsing is illegal in countries where treasure hunting is illegal?
Best wishes,
J_P