Scotland metal detecting permission required for treasure hunter

[DETECTORING TED]

Hi

I'm hoping that someone on this forum from Scotland will give me permission to metal detect on their farm land in the Scotland area

I am a 56 year old ex farm worker from Wales my wife is Scottish we both love archaeology. Apart from crown estates property I have no other land to search.

I am a member of the National Council for Metal Detecting. I am extremely courteous, trustworthy and tidy in my detecting and will adhere to any rules/instructions requested by the landowner there will be no open holes left behind. I am interested in local history and archaeology in Scotland including the missing millions of bonny prince Charles.

Thank you for reading my post. I realise that farmers are very busy people and hard working and understand that just like farmer Johnson in staffordshire who was happy when he allowed a search detector into a field the farmer said had been searched before and pointed out nothing was found they both ended up sharing £3.3 million.

so the next decent find could well be in Scotland on a field of stubble.
Eddie 07835860118

 

[JCMaloney]

Welcome...I despise the phrase "Treasure Hunter" I prefer "Metal Detectorist" as 99% of what we find is metal and not much "Treasure".
Aside from that I gather Scotland is rather large.... you may need to put your nearest town as a location?

 

[DETECTORING TED]

I can cover scotland and as for treasure I think there is not metal trove unit in scotland I think its called treasure trove unit I may be wrong but not often.

 

[Dry Rot]

Welcome...I despise the phrase "Treasure Hunter" I prefer "Metal Detectorist" as 99% of what we find is metal and not much "Treasure".
Aside from that I gather Scotland is rather large.... you may need to put your nearest town as a location?

Took the words out of my mouth!

 

[DETECTORING TED]

"two out of three aint bad"

 

[JCMaloney]

I was aware of the legal differences North of the wall....I work with Alistair H on the NCMD committee.
And, yes its called Treasure Trove Scotland as the law differs greatly from down South.
https://treasuretrovescotland.co.uk/

We are still metal detectorists though....

 

[scotlad1981]

I am also a member of the ncmd and am looking for permissions the east ayrshire area