Untill someone makes a wood detector I don’t think they are worried about it.
The point is that a metal detector is specifically made to find stuff easier, and significantly cuts down on manpower needed to find stuff, increasing the risk of scavanging.
If you ever go to a museum and look at what artifacts they have from the dark ages, it’s like 99% metal stuff. Just statistical I guess. I think even a gemstone would normally be attached to a piece of jewelry and not just loose on its own. The other big one is pottery and other earthwares, but I guess the idea of that law is to protect whatever they can.
TL;DR and for non-swedes: the suggestion argues that hobbyists should be allowed to use metal detectors more freely. The motion was initally approved by Riksdagen but later voted against as there already work in progress on matter of simplifying the rules regarding metal detectors. So change might come, hopefully sooner than later
Me and my BF have had a similar experience, I had my recording equipment and he had his metal detector, and I guess both of these things are semitic stereotypes because we were both hated upon for these two things. Neither of us were Jewish, I’m a Christian (more or less if one wants to argue the semantics) and he being an unspecific mix of things.
Not me but someone who did it in our yard back when I was a wee lad: a gun. Don’t worry. Someone did not drop their gun willy nilly in our lawn, at least not recently. The thing was a very rusty 80-year old revolver. He also found a decent amount of tax tokens.
Digging in my current yard has not resulted in anything as fun: 150 beer bottles, an animal skull (still not sure what species), and a wine bunch of oyster shells.
Copper chisel chips on old mining piles, copper replacement agates, lots of small copper specimens that are slowly filling my house. I gave up on the sweeping metal detectors once I got some nice handheld probes that you can shove deep into loose dirt and rocks while digging.
I have an actual answer. I bought a metal detector and naturally I set to work in the backyard to see if I could find anything cool. Well I don’t know if you think rusty nails and bottle caps are cool but I sure found a lot of those. I did find a lot of good time to practice though.
Fast forward a few months, I had branched out to local parks and such and hadn’t revisited the backyard. We were having some landscaping done which included digging up some tree stumps. For a lark I ran the detector over one of the holes a stump had come out of and I got a hit. Not just a hit but a hit that registered the same as a pre-1964 quarter. Silver.
Not sure how I had missed them or what they were doing there but best I can figure is that since the house dated to the late 1950’s some kid grabbed his dads wings from the war and managed to lose them in the backyard and was never able to find them. Sad for dad but cool for me I guess
That's really cool! I wonder if there's a way to find the previous owners of the house, that'd make for a really fun story if you were able to track down the original owner somehow.
My keys, which is the reason I got a cheap detector. I haven’t used it since, but have loaned it out a couple times for other people looking for their keys.
A small child nicked my keys and dropped them somewhere in a large field. A detector was cheaper than a new electronic key for my car.