IMO - there is absolutely no debate. I'm not detecting a cemetery under any circumstance.
I have a cemetery down my gravel road that was est. in 1867. No one would even know I was there. But that doesn't change anything for me.
There is a field area outside the cemetery fence where people would park when they visit that I have considered hitting. I think I will at some point. I think it's far enough away that I feel comfortable doing it.
Very well said! Clear and to the point.
I might also be tempted to hunt the parking lot field, but I suppose we could say that was a field was kind of an extension of the cemetery as people were arriving there on a day of great sorrow. But if I saw you out there, I wouldn't think anything negative of it and probably would want to go get my detector also.