The latest Treasure Valuation Committee minutes for 2024: £4,285,000 was recommended in 'reward' payments to finders/landowners for detected 'Treasure' artefacts in 2024.
When you add in the costs of administrating PAS, FLO costs, museum time, etc, this is an awful lot of cash going from the public purse (via DCMS, crowdfunding, grants etc) directly into the pockets of individual finders and landowners.
Reminder: the detecting community contributes nothing financially.







