Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: "One of the Great Minds in World Numismatics"

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Anonymous said...: Well, I'd already tipped off SDG Member privately that he'd get all sorts of bitter opposition if he tried to adopt an ethical stance. I didn't mention the Miss Whiplash imagery though. Amazingly, he is being told that being ethical = capitulation, humiliation and equivalent to having your face rubbed in excrement! I hope Ed Vaizey gets shown that!; 5 November 2013 at 22:40
Paul Barford said...: well, it certainly makes you wonder where some of these metal detectorists get their ideas from.; 6 November 2013 at 00:08
David Knell said...: "Rather than celebrating the knowledge that has come from these finds ..." (http://culturalpropertyobserver.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/metal-detectorists-10-archaeologists-0.html)

For a lawyer, Peter Tompa appears to have a worryingly fluffy idea of what "knowledge" is. The "knowledge" gained from a contextless object ripped out of the ground without even the basics of forensic examination, and in most cases even without bothering to record it at all, is good enough for him? I dread to think what evidence he would happily accept in a trial case.

(The REAL David Knell); 6 November 2013 at 05:53