STARBORN Sterling Bracelet METEORITE? MOLDARITE? Need Earthling Advice

The British scheme specifies that the finder gets full market value for the find, or keeps the find if no museum is interested in paying for the item. Usually the land owner gets half of the value, the finder half unless some previous arrangement was made.

This means that it is quite possible most items do get registered, most importantly the finders do not have a powerful incentive to cheat. Denmark does not seem to think a powerful incentive to cheat is a bad idea.

This article links to the Treasure Act, 1996 as well. Most people seem to think it is pretty fair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Antiquities_Scheme

 

They're designed to encourage detectorists to protect and preserve both context and object. Or anyone else for that matter. Pragmatic and well thought out.

 

i do believe there is a finders fee, but i doubt it has even the slightest to do with a market value here, i mean i follow fx a lot of coin auctions, and there are a fair amount of coins you technically would be able to dig out of the ground, that has a market value of 1000£ and upwards. i dont know how the museums prevent people from cheating, but im not a metal detectorist so i havent looked all too much into it