Minted by romans, hoarded by non-romans. The Arcalia hoard

The convergence approach between the legislation on the statute of metal detecting in Romania and the increase of understanding on the meaning of protecting the cultural heritage from the side of metal detectorists has led in the last decade to the increase of reported hoards discovered by metal detecting. The hoard which is the subject of the present work is, probably, one of the best cases when the code of good practices can shed a new light on the interpretation – and its methodology – of an ancient discovery. The hoard was partially discovered by the metal detectorist, who at the moment he realized he found part of a hoard, immediately stopped and follow the legal procedure. Then, the archaeologist urgently took a rescue excavation at the findspot and properly record the new finds and completely recovered the hoard and entered the area into the National Register of Archaeological sites, thus, officially protecting the area from future metal detecting activity. (from „Introduction”)