Hello!
Welcome to my Conservation MD Travel Blog!
Some of you who may have read my other blog on MDFanatic.com will know that blog chronicles mainly my Metal Detecting finds and tips and whatnots.
http://www.mdfanatic.com/forums/blogs/journey-of-a-singaporean-metal-detectorist
So why did I choose to write a new blog here?
The reason I am writing this blog... is... *drum roll*
Ok ok ok... Cut the crap...
I am dedicating this blog to Travelling and Metal Detecting (and what I personally call Conservation Metal Detecting). << Please mark this down, I coined this earlier but I officially published this on this day of 27th December of 2014! hahaha!
I am hoping that with my travelling, I will be able to meet up with people, show them what metal detecting can unearth from their grounds and what history they can discover in their surroundings.
Hopefully, this will spur interests in both history, history conservation as well as metal detecting as a hobby.
Truth is, many historical items (especially in Asia, Singapore included) are lost to urban development and may never ever see light again.
To top it off, governments are more interested in development than to preserve history... in most cases, when making a choice between economical value and historical value, the latter will lose...
I hope with a new generation of educated metal detectorists, we will be able to not only unearth history and bring it to light, we can also preserve the history via social media and other archival means to archive our finds and their locations, allowing for better historical data mining in future.
(You may want to keep locations confidential in your personal records to safeguard the locations from historical thieves)
For the record, I am not against keeping finds, but I do hope that historical finds will be surrendered to the national museums for them to chronicle the history of the find and the significance of the find however insignificant they may be. And where such authorities are not available at the moment of your find, please do make your own records for possible future submission to the relevant authorities for their archaeological research and archival works.
I will be making some short entries soon. And although I may not be a good writer (as yet), but I will only get better as I go. (okok, I hope)
Anyway, I will be making this a bilingual blog. Hence, for every entry that I make in English, I will be writing one in Chinese. (Ok... this is going to be a real challenge... I need to translate this! Anyone willing to help?)
Please do support this little effort that I have done for "Conservation Metal Detecting" (there! I used it again!) and I hope you will spread the word and help in this same cause.
For those who hunts, happy hunting and good luck!
For those who are yet to start hunting, do hope to see you start soon and help us in our quest for Conservation Metal Detecting!
And hopefully, in future, we will see more people who will join me as part of the "Have MD. Will Travel" journey or better yet, create one of your own!
Bye for now!
The (Conservation) Metal Detecting Traveller
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嗨！
欢迎来到我的探宝旅游博客日志！
你们当中有些人可能已经阅过我在MDFanatic.com的博客日志，其博客记载的主要是我在金属探测时所找到的物品和我这两年来的探宝心得。
http://www.mdfanatic.com/forums/blogs/journey-of-a-singaporean-metal-detectorist
因此，你也许会问我为什么选择在这里又设了一个新的博客日志呢？
这个综合旅行与金属探测/探宝的博客日志，将会是我致力于旅游时探宝的实况记录（以及我个人称之为“护史金属探测”或是“护史探宝”的日志）。 <<这可是我在2014年12月27日，创造的词汇！哈哈哈！说不定有一天这会是一个通用的词汇呢！
我希望随着我的“周游列国”，我将能够让更多人认识到金属探测（这个在亚洲区的新兴嗜好），并让他们意识到可以从他们的周围发现长埋土里的历史文物及遗失了很久的饰物，等等。
我希望，这将刺激人们对历史文物保护以及金属探测/探宝的兴趣。
事实上，许多历史的文物与饰品（特别是在亚洲，包括新加坡在内）都因为城市的发展而再也不能从见天日，从此长埋在我们脚下的土壤里。
更糟糕的是，当政府需要取决于城市发展或保留历史文物及古迹时，往往都会选择放弃历史而选择发展。
我希望能尽一点绵力，与新一代的金属探测爱好者，一起发掘并保护历史。
然后，我们也可以通过社交媒体记载所有被发现的历史文物，从而更好把历史数据储存起来。
希望将来这些数据都可以提交到考古研究和其档案工作者的存库中。
这个日志将以双语的形式编写。如果有写得不好的地方，还请大家间量与包涵。
请支持我的这一点点绵力！谢谢！
再见！
（护史）金属探测旅行者
