I am interested in metal detecting in Poland. I cannot find much in the way on laws about it – restrictions?
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Ellis K asked:
Of course, logically you know to ask if you on someones property. For instance if I was in the country-side just exploring with it – is it illegal? I don’t want to do wrong, Poland has much to offer in the way of history and I thought metal detecting would be fun and interesting.
For the freak below me, “adiot” , do you mean “idiot” – I think you took too many painkillers! Please, serious answers only. Thank you
July 27th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
do you what are you asking ? are you on drugs , get real and study you adiot.
July 29th, 2009 at 8:01 am
metal detecting is legal
BUT
ANYTHING you find belongs (by law) to the government. in fact anything below ground level (minerals and all) belongs to the government
If you find a treasure it DEFINETLY belongs to the government and you’d better be ready to explain everything to the state prosecutor (like try PROVING that you declared everything you found). THIS IS NOT A JOKE
This counts double for anything even remotely ressembling a weapon manufactured after 1850
Bear also in mind that in the last century we had a war in 1914-1918; 1919-1920 and 1939-1945. There are gazilions of unexploded shells still not accounted for and hardly a day passes without the press reporting “construction site evacuated due to unexploded ww1/ ww2 bomb”
Just to cheer you up a bit- the chemical warheads (ww1 and ww2 vintage) are also there, and many are in good working condition.
So definetly come, but try and photo every find (archeology laws) and carefully check what you found before you use a pick axe to dig