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magnet fishing

  • 30-01-2017 10:27am
    #1
    aerosol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭


    After extensive searching, I can't find any real info on this here in Ireland. Can anyone shed any light on the legalities. I understand its not quite Archaeology but couldn't think of a better board to ask in. Thanks


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  • #2
    Fries-With-That
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Fries-With-That


    aerosol wrote: »
    After extensive searching, I can't find any real info on this here in Ireland. Can anyone shed any light on the legalities. I understand its not quite Archaeology but couldn't think of a better board to ask in. Thanks

    Throwing a magnet attached to a strong rope into a river or canal in Ireland is hardly in the realms of excavation or archaeological digging.

    I would imagine it would fall into the remit of having to inform the relevant authorities if you find anything that is not readily identifiable as scrap iron.

    If you are intending taking up the hobby it might be no harm to find out what they think of the idea at,

    National Monuments Service,
    Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
    Custom House
    Dublin 1

    I have watched this hobby with interest on YouTube, and find it fascinating that people will spend hours hauling junk from rivers and canals.

    They never seem to show what they do with the junk they haul out.

    There is a short clip somewhere on YouTube of a canal being drained in Paris, the amount of scrap recovered and the types of objects uncovered is interesting.


  • #3
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    A magnet is a form of metal detection device and would therefore be subject to the same restrictions as any other metal detecting device.


  • #4
    slaneylad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 299 ✭✭slaneylad


    slowburner wrote: »
    A magnet is a form of metal detection device and would therefore be subject to the same restrictions as any other metal detecting device.

    Bit of a stretch perhaps? Magnet noun - a piece of iron or other material which has its component atoms so ordered that the material exhibits properties of magnetism, such as attracting other iron-containing objects or aligning itself in an external magnetic field.


  • #5
    slowburner
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 5,223 Mod ✭✭✭✭slowburner


    slaneylad wrote: »
    Bit of a stretch perhaps? Magnet noun - a piece of iron or other material which has its component atoms so ordered that the material exhibits properties of magnetism, such as attracting other iron-containing objects or aligning itself in an external magnetic field.
    That is a definition of a magnet.

    When a magnet is attached to something, and is then used to perform an action; it becomes a device. In this case, a device for the deliberate detection and recovery of ferrous metal.
    It is no longer just an inert magnet.
    If the device is intentionally used for the purposes of recovering archaeological objects, it is subject to the same laws that apply to metal detecting devices.


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