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Sharing finds with landowner

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I'm fortunate to have a very friendly farmer (next door) who'm I'm about to sweet-talk.
No doubt we both sign a 50/50 share agreement in return for permission to use his land, but what is the best arrangement for sharing the more mundane stuff.
They may well be junk to him, but they are relics to me.
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He will be pleased that you take the junk off his land,i guess.

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Hi Ian, you may not need a 50/50 share agreement, let the farmer decide whether or not he wants one. Many farmers/landowners prefer a handshake
and mutual trust.

Keep him/her informed of all you find, showing him/her whenever you can, and invite the person to have any which they would like to. More often than not
they will politely say no thank you. You can of course make up a display box of finds which come from their land, but, always make sure that the finds are
actually just that, from their land. This time of year is a good time for such a present, together with a bottle, or box of biscuits for the family, plus of course
the card.
Best of luck, I am sure that you will be O.K., because you are definitely showing honesty right here.
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Thanks and all the best.
Ian

Old Git John wrote:Hi Ian, you may not need a 50/50 share agreement, let the farmer decide whether or not he wants one. Many farmers/landowners prefer a handshake
and mutual trust.

Keep him/her informed of all you find, showing him/her whenever you can, and invite the person to have any which they would like to. More often than not
they will politely say no thank you. You can of course make up a display box of finds which come from their land, but, always make sure that the finds are
actually just that, from their land. This time of year is a good time for such a present, together with a bottle, or box of biscuits for the family, plus of course
the card.
Best of luck, I am sure that you will be O.K., because you are definitely showing honesty right here.

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Old Git John wrote:Hi Ian, you may not need a 50/50 share agreement, let the farmer decide whether or not he wants one. Many farmers/landowners prefer a handshake
and mutual trust.

Keep him/her informed of all you find, showing him/her whenever you can, and invite the person to have any which they would like to. More often than not
they will politely say no thank you. You can of course make up a display box of finds which come from their land, but, always make sure that the finds are
actually just that, from their land. This time of year is a good time for such a present, together with a bottle, or box of biscuits for the family, plus of course
the card.
Best of luck, I am sure that you will be O.K., because you are definitely showing honesty right here.
Yes I agree with everything the Old Git says Ian - honesty is always the best policy.
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Post by Donnydave »

Some farmers are only interested in the more valuable or treasure finds, like John as said if you show them what you are finding they usually seem uninterested in the stuff we find exciting, but honesty is the key, some detectorists forget all about the original agreement once they have secured permission but the farmer can always change his mind if he thinks your being less than honest with him :g43:

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Post by jcmaloney »

OGJ has it spot on.

Some think every hole is a gold coin............the reality is much different.

One of my farmers has no interest in coins etc but has every bit of worked flint, another was brought to tears by his grandads engraved penknife. You never know so being honest is the best plan.

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I've shared finds with farmer landowners for years.
Always show them what turns up, especially if the land has been in the same family for eons.
Some of them do like to be offered their choice of the finds and some like coins, others like clay pipe bowls, stems etc. In fact one farmer told me "I have often found the stems but never the bowls!"
This past Summer, I gave away the vast majority of what I found from two fields as a request for that was part of the permission.

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I've shared finds with farmer landowners for years.
Always show them what turns up, especially if the land has been in the same family for eons.
Some of them do like to be offered their choice of the finds and some like coins, others like clay pipe bowls, stems etc. In fact one farmer told me "I have often found the stems but never the bowls!"
This past Summer, I gave away the vast majority of what I found from two fields as a request for that was part of the permission.

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Old Git John wrote:Hi Ian, you may not need a 50/50 share agreement, let the farmer decide whether or not he wants one. Many farmers/landowners prefer a handshake
and mutual trust.

Keep him/her informed of all you find, showing him/her whenever you can, and invite the person to have any which they would like to. More often than not
they will politely say no thank you. You can of course make up a display box of finds which come from their land, but, always make sure that the finds are
actually just that, from their land. This time of year is a good time for such a present, together with a bottle, or box of biscuits for the family, plus of course
the card.
Best of luck, I am sure that you will be O.K., because you are definitely showing honesty right here.
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Post by PhilD »

One the other hand, playing devil's advocate, what if you found a huge hoard and the landowner said 'we agreed nothing in writing' and wanted it all, could you end up with nothing or would you still get 50% without a written agreement?

Also re the non treasure finds you could agree to share 'finds of significant value' with the landowner should he wish and agree with him what to set the 'significant value' at.
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