wow, old post.
That's not one of the locations listed on this link: http://www.ncmd.co.uk/law.html
There will no doubt be people who will come on to answer "no". Simply because perhaps they've done exactly as UK Brian suggests: "ask their embassy" (or consulate, or border lawyer, or govt. bureaucrat there, etc.....). While seemingly innocent (who better to ask, than the country themselves, afterall? doh!), this type thing has resulted in "no's", for locations, states, countries, etc... where .... quite frankly, it's common-place.
The reasons for the "no's" are probably because whomever someone has asked in the past, couches your answer in terms of things like federal antiquities, shipwreck salvor type laws, exporting gold bars stuff, raiding the pyramaids, etc.... Ie.: laws that predate metal detectors, and are in every country. In other words: If you asked enough bureaucrats here in the USA too, you could probably also find someone to tell you "no" as well. Because they're couching your question in terms of ARPA, or mel fisher legal hassles, federal parks, lost & found laws, etc... blah blah. Yet may never be applied to casual coin hunting, or for modern jewelry, for example. Or any such laws perhaps apply only to federal (or public) land, yet not to private land. So you could hunt private farmer's fields with permission till your arms fall off.
I once sold a detector to a fellow who responded to a classified ad, who was in one of the countries on the link above. The country was one of those with "dire sounding" wording. So I couldn't resist asking him "how do you detect there?". He said that as long as you're not snooping around obvious historic monuments, it's not a problem. Or that they hunt farmer's fields. Or quite frankly, are so far back in the woods, there's no one around. I'm not saying this applies to everywhere in the world, but ....... just saying ....... maybe the best way to find out, is to talk to locals there who know the real skinny. Like is there any dealers there? (manufacturers have lists of their distributors/dealers on their websites). Even if not one in that exact country, perhaps the bordering areas. If you contacted them, they might steer you in the direction of hobbyists who hunt there.
