Motion detectors, regular police patrols and security fencing, it’s sad but that’s the world we live in. I’d love to be able to collect rare CW relics and artefacts but id rather let the experts have them. That’s the problem with unscrupulous relic hunters, they dont care about the context of a buried object or how it relates to the surrounding area. Every timed someone pics up a CW relic and doesn’t bother to record its location, a little bit of the story gets destroyed.
I’ve never understood those collectors who knowingly buy artefacts that have been robbed from archaeological sites. Yes, those artefacts may look great their display cabinet but what about the rest of us, what about the lost history, if someone takes an artefact illegall, everyone gets robbed.