@josh0 @karppinen I did not imagine it before today.

@karppinen a lynx is quite small compared to an adult deer, so on seeing this post I searched for “do lynx kill deer?” and very quickly found a video of a small lynx attacking and killing a large deer. So wow, there’s me learning something. Lynx are cool, and scary.

@jens2go British laws around metal detecting seem to focus more on allowing people to extract the financial value of archeological finds than on preserving the knowledge. By contrast, in Ireland they have laws preventing people from using metal detectors this way without prior approval, and they are pretty careful about when they allow archeological digs.

https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/The-Law-on-Metal-Detecting-in-Ireland

@GossiTheDog This is framed as a warning but I’m taking it as more of a promise.