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UK, SE, DA Metal Detector Laws Compared

By aardvarchaeology on February 22, 2011.

My detectorist friend Svante Tibell pointed me to an extremely interesting term paper by Ingrid Ulst, one of Marge Konsa's students at the university of Tartu in Estonia. The title says it all: The Regulation of Metal Detectors and Responsible Metal-Detecting: the Examples of the UK, Sweden and Denmark. Check it out!

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Interesting, but there are many Danish articles she should have read before she wrote her essay.

I'm with HÃ¥kan on this one. Interesting topic and some salient points, but she should have her homework better.

What I meant was that she should have [i]done[/i] her homework better.