I have had five bad experiences with Professional Archaeologists. The first was when I was involved in the installation of a waterline through the parade ground of a War of 1812 fort. I was in charge of a survey crew utilized to accurately plot the location of every Artifact uncovered. The Artifact was bagged and tagged with an identifying number and its exact location recorded. One afternoon when I entered the room of the fort being used by the Archaeologists as an office to turn in my notes on that days finds, I overheard: "Do you want this Button, I already have one like it." As they were both from the same University I believe they were speaking of personal private collections. Which makes me believe that most if not all Archaeologists have their own personal private collections. The second was when I and some metal detector colleagues located the remains (rear portion) of the largest Cannon the Confederate Army had during the Civil War. It had been blown up to keep it from being captured by the advancing Union Army. We turned the location information over to Archaeologists at the local University, our reward was to be accused of removing the Brass Sight from the Cannon, undergoing extensive interrogations and having our collections of Civil War Artifacts searched. They wanted to seize them and this was only avoided through us obtaining a court order stopping their actions. The third was when the Largest Fort the Confederate Army had was being threatened by development. Archaeologists were called in to do an evaluation and the test excavations they made were outside the main confines of the Fort. A number of metal detectorists could have pointed out many locations where these test excavations should have been done, locations where Metal Artifacts had been found. The end result was they determined the Fort was never manned or used during the Civil War and the development was allowed to proceed, forever destroying the location. The fourth was when some colleagues of mine, located and dove on a sunken Confederate Blockade Runner only to have everything they had recovered be seized and undergo expensive court battles to try to get it back. The fifth and I do hope the last encounter I ever have with Professional Archaeologists occurred when I discovered an undisturbed articulated Indian Burial Mound consisting of a large mound with several smaller mounds radiating off of it like spokes on a wheel. I photographed it and sent the pictures and information to the State University. They sent a team down and I led them to the location, situated on some high ground, deep in a swamp. After several months, I received a letter informing me that the State University did not have the funds or manpower to undertake the excavation and they were turning it over to a neighboring State University, giving me the date when the dig was scheduled to begin. A few days after the scheduled start I was metal detecting in the area and paid a visit to the site to see what was developing, the Archaeologist in charge, a woman saw my metal detector and went ballistic. She took my name and address, ordered my off the site and never once listened to me trying to explain who I was and that I had discovered the Mounds. Two days later I was served with a court order banning me from the entire area. DO YOU THINK I WILL EVER AGAIN REPORT A DISCOVERY OF ANY TYPE.