Last Updated September 2007 Coin and other artifacts found on
Jupiter wreck
These are the judgments and edicts which
must be obeyed by all those
who wield detectors of metal: 1. Thou shall not leave behind unfilled
excavations.
2. Thou shall not trespass or defy in any way the
lawful decrees of thy
city, county, state or country.
8. Thou shall report to the proper authorities any
finds relating to
criminal activity or of
archeological significance. And if thou dost not abide by these commandments, may you be plagued
with mineral-bearing rocks, hard-cracked soil, pestilence, serpents,
locusts, poisonous vegetation and great multitudes of pull tabs, bottle
caps and rusty nails. May you spend the remaining years of your
wretched life digging signals of false origin. For thy iniquities
shall surely bring the overzealous wrath of the ignorant heathen
bureaucrats down upon those of us who are innocent. For we are the
righteous and the just, and ye who disobey the ten commandments of metal
detecting are bad.
3. Thou shall not
harm vegetation, the creatures of the field, natural resources or the
personal property of others.
4. Thou shall not
covet the finds of thy companion. Nor shall ye covet his metal detector, digging tool or the
hallowed ground in which he
diggeth.
5. Thou shall not
ignore nor neglect thy family whilst in the endless pursuit of thy hobby.
6. Thou shall
assist the distraught owners of lost goods, and the archeologists, and the enforcers of law,
and all others who may need
thy skill as a metal detectorist.
7. Thou shall
return found treasures to the proper owners whenever their true identity can be rightfully
determined.
9. Thou shall be considerate
of others on the beach and in other public places whilst
waving thy search coil and digging holes in the sand and the soil.
10. Thou shall speak out
against the unjust laws and stand firm against the philistines who would cast out all
those who use detectors of metal.
