Editing Metal detector (section)

====Politics and conflicts in the metal detecting hobby in the United States====
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The metal detecting community and professional archaeologists have different ideas related to the recovery and preservation of historic finds and locations. Archaeologists claim that detector hobbyists take an artifact-centric approach, removing these from their context resulting in a permanent loss of historical information. Archaeological looting of places like [[Slack Farm]] in 1987 and [[Petersburg National Battlefield]] serve as evidence against allowing unsupervised metal detecting in historic locations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/23/10827391-civil-war-relic-thief-engaged-in-heartbreaking-destruction?lite|title=Civil War relic thief engaged in 'heartbreaking' destruction|publisher=NBC News}}</ref>