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There is a rather vague website now up about the Britain's Secret Treasures programme (http://www.itv.com/treasure/), it does not reveal much more than the material not-very-subtly leaked to the press a few weeks ago have already told us.
We also see the direction the programme is going, look how many of the objects in the galleries were "found by metal detector". Then note the inane narrativisation of individual items ]"I wonder what Iron Age beer tasted like?" - plundering more British Iron Age sites with metal detectors and spades will not provide the answer to that question].
Viewers are invited to join in the discoveryfest: "Send in your treasure". The date when you can put aside your metal detector and spade is Thursday 19th July at 1pm. But "Items received after this date will not be considered for the programme but will still be reviewed by the British Museum and may be featured in some form on the website", which rather makes the aim of this competition amply clear. Again, everything else is being subordinated to expanding the PAS database numbers (note that in the competition's regulations there is not a word about not taking things from protected sites).
Vignette: Has this magnificent Roman helmet, designed to shock and awe, already been lost to the world again? | © Portable Antiquities Scheme
There is a rather vague website now up about the Britain's Secret Treasures programme (http://www.itv.com/treasure/), it does not reveal much more than the material not-very-subtly leaked to the press a few weeks ago have already told us.
We learn however from slide 8/8, despite what it said earlier, the PAS (and not Christie's)
owns the copyright on "this" image of the Crosby Garrett helmet.
We also see the direction the programme is going, look how many of the objects in the galleries were "found by metal detector". Then note the inane narrativisation of individual items ]"I wonder what Iron Age beer tasted like?" - plundering more British Iron Age sites with metal detectors and spades will not provide the answer to that question].
Viewers are invited to join in the discoveryfest: "Send in your treasure". The date when you can put aside your metal detector and spade is Thursday 19th July at 1pm. But "Items received after this date will not be considered for the programme but will still be reviewed by the British Museum and may be featured in some form on the website", which rather makes the aim of this competition amply clear. Again, everything else is being subordinated to expanding the PAS database numbers (note that in the competition's regulations there is not a word about not taking things from protected sites).
Vignette: Has this magnificent Roman helmet, designed to shock and awe, already been lost to the world again? | © Portable Antiquities Scheme
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