Assad army
damages Khaled bin Walid mausoleum in Homs, Syria. The building itself comes from the beginning of the 20th century, but has huge symbolic value.Vignette: shell damage
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A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
About Me
- Paul Barford
- British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
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- Republic of Ireland Publishes Guidelines on Use of...
- PAS Misleads....
- Scattered in Private Collections
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: The Profits to be Mad...
- Iraq: ICE "Cultivated Sources"
- USA Hands Back Illegal 'War-trophy'
- Guatemala: "Almost all archaeological sites have s...
- Syrian Looters in Bulldozers Seek Treasure Amid Chaos
- One Way of Eliminating the Problem
- Egypt: Government deposed, looting continues
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Making Responsible St...
- CBA Director on Metal Detecting Rallies
- Sacred Statue Looted, Replaced by Fake
- US Lobbyist: Second Best Good Enough for Brown-Ski...
- Donna Yates, Detroit and Rio Azul
- Iraq, US reach deal on stolen artefacts: official
- Iraq Antiquity Thefts: al-Mayahi Summary of the Fi...
- High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trad...
- DOA Uncategorised
- Lexington Metal Detectorist on Collaboration in He...
- Proculus Coin STILL Not in PAS Database
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Going Artefact Huntin...
- Emerson Andrew wants help from a metal detectorist
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: How the TVC Works
- How's the report on the Montgomery Hoard Coming Al...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: More "Archaeologists ...
- Death of Ernst-Ulrich Walter
- US Iraqi Loot: Assyrian Head to be Seized
- North American Coiney with Neo-Nazi Sympathies
- No Exhibition of Sicilian Antiquities at Cleveland...
- US Relic Hunting: "What we won the right for from ...
- Changing Trends in the Antiquities Market or Idle ...
- Khaled bin Walid mausoleum
- Qatar Currently Building Encyclopaedic Museum Coll...
- PASofAmerica: Getting it Up
- American Anthropological Association Belatedly Obj...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "How to Save the heri...
- Well, Not Really a Matter of Such Great Concern
- Hate, or Duff Beer, Rots the Braincells
- Ceramic Fragmentation Analysis
- Farmer Brown: “So you think you’re insured against...
- Donna Yates on Detroit and Rio Azul
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Mistaken Identity?
- Good News for the Trade in Ancient Greek Dugup Ant...
- The Sting
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: More Eastern European...
- Is that a Threat, Mr Holcombe?
- Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection
- American Digger's "Drive" to Bridge the Divide Bet...
- Coin Dealer Murdered
- US Cultural Property MOUs. The Rest Currently Poor...
- Lawyer Calls for More Transparency in Market
- 100% Transparency Upfront
- Olga Dogaru, Alleged Romanian Art Destroyer
- UK's Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Foreign C...
- American Digger "Invites"
- Moneta-L Dying?
- Update on Kuzman Case
- France Returns Esie Statue To Nigeria
- Focus on Metal Detecting: Oh, the Irony....
- Macedonia's Kuzman Questioned
- German Court Rejects Mexican Restitution Claim
- Egypt: Mohammed Ibrahim Ali Reappointed Minister o...
- Rothfield on Syria: UNESCO Handwringing Insufficient
- The Return of Aesthetics to Archaeology
- Pineapples and Pillaging the Archaeological Record...
- Looted Navajo Artefacts Returned to Tribe
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Archaeological Eviden...
- Aerial Photos and the War
- "The Great Arkie-Tekkie Shootout", Really?
- Archaeologists versus Metal Detectorists on the ne...
- Guarding the Sites: Electronically
- Guarding The Sites...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Criminal gangs Traffi...
- UK Archaeologists "Concerned" About Situation of A...
- "10 000 K and over" Antiquities
- America and Egypt's Looters: Where Lies the Truth?
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Trouble at 'Rally
- The Foggy Trade in Artefacts Looted in Foggia
- Egypt: Morsi Deposed, Security being Restored
- Footballer Wanted to Take Antiquity?
- Art Newspaper on the Vulnerable Cultural Heritage
- You can STOP Black Market Antiquities
- A Source of Ancient Dugups for Specialized Auction...
- Zero Evidence for Fincham
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Buxton Permanent Past...
- An Unweeded Garden of Things Rank and Gross in Nat...
- Peter Campbell on Crime, Corruption (and Murder) i...
- Campbell on the Internet Trade in Illicit Antiquities
- Campbell on Middle Eastern Antiquities Trade Networks
- Does the Illicit Antiquities Trade Fund Terrorist ...
- BM Silence over Pandora and the Parthenon
- Huffer and the Trustees
- More on the Art Gallery of New South Wales Documen...
- Athens Antiquities Bust at the Flisvou Marina
- Operation Iphigenia
- Roman Coin Hoard Discovered near Beauly
- The AGACC "Keeping the Hobby Clean" Award
- Looted ancient coins return to Romania from US
- Mansour Boraik removed as head of antiquities in L...
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A Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting in England and Wales (2018)
I started this counter at midnight of 15th July 2018. Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting.
Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Erik Nemeth et al. Art World Intelligence
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Michael McCullough LLC Blog
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Sam Hardy 'Conflict Antiqiuties'
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- The Punching Bag Larry Rothfield
- Things You Can't Take Back
- Trafficking Culture (Glasgow)
- Tumblr - Cultural Security
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Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Code of Practice for "Responsible Metal Detecting" in England and Wales
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- Cultural Security
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- 2015 Petition: "Für den Erhalt des privaten Sammelns [sic]"
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of EGYPT (Docket DOS-2014-0008)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
- Past Times and Present tensions (John Hooker)
False "Barford" Blogs, Not Actually by Paul Barford
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
- MENA - Middle East and North Africa
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
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