You might enjoy the Brit TV series ‘Detectorists’, bottle caps, old metal buttons and pull tabs from beer cans are the usual finds of the two main characters.
Really cool - amazing how well that red enamel has held up for 2,500 years. (How come women need to get their nails done once a week?)
I thought of that show the Decectorists as well. Of course in their case they would have planned to search this field where the chariot was found, but the flood would have pushed them off into another field!
I’m guessing that the government must fund the exploration and dig so they can do it carefully. I know if I was Mike Smith (fake name I hope?) I would just tell them “Aye - don’t worry about the funding. I’ll rent a digger and get right to it!”