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"Very Stupid People"
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UK metal detectorist John Winter waggishly quotes something he read in a book from a charity shop: "Archaeology, as we all know, is simply a tool that enables very stupid people to get into university." Most metal detectorists would not qualify even for an archaeology course at that university in Florida.
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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- New York and Curatorial Responsibilities
- Collectors against the Professors
- Detectorists seriously behind the times
- Egypt steps up fight against antiquities thieves
- The "Guess the Stone Circle" Competition in "The S...
- Cut Back on Consumerist Tendencies to Protect our ...
- "British Found" Metal Detecting Find for Sale
- One or More More Anglian Cemeteries Emptied onto EBay
- Proceedings of the Advanced Metal Detecting for th...
- Are Some Parts of the Global Heritage Less Equal t...
- Going, Going.... Gone. One More Hoiked Early Medie...
- "Tackling Pasture Sites"
- Tide a Long Time in "Turning"
- UNESCO to create an Observatory for the Safeguardi...
- Sam Hardy's "Conflict Antiquities: the book"
- Whose Culture is it?
- Smugglers Thrive On Syria's Chaos, Looting Cultura...
- Why the Syrian Looting and Smuggling Matters
- Filming Starts Soon for Crook's "Detectorists"
- UKDFD Implosion
- Maryport
- Another Detecting Website Gone?
- UK Foot Dragging, PAS drops under the Radar
- PAS and Finds Release Documentation
- More on the So-called Crosby Garrett Helmet
- Je Suis un Confrère (du 'royaume voisin du nord')!
- Struggling to Find Meaning, Washington Coiney Maki...
- UK Metal Detecting Mr Broom Has Left in a Huff (UP...
- "I Don't Want to Talk About it"
- "How Can we See the Treasure Act etc"?
- "and What's Wrong With That?"
- UK Metal Detectorist: We Are The Ones That Have Th...
- UK Metal Detecting: As Easy as Taking Candy from a...
- Artefacts recovered from USA
- Looted Objects from Sakkara Reported in Budapest a...
- US Coineys: They Just Don't Get it...
- UK Metal Detecting: "We put in The Hours, but They...
- Sayles' Wife on the ACCG Board "Ensures Continuity"
- Sassanid, Greek and Mogul-era coins bound for Chin...
- UK Metal Detectorist Puzzled over Ownership
- The Voice of Reason Agin Coiney Unreason
- DC's Coiney Amnesiac Conspiratorist
- Zahi Hawass Cleared (Again) of Corruption Charges
- Another Barford on Ha'pennies
- Hoiked find belongs in Museum: Who will pay for th...
- UK Metal Detecting: Winter Discontented
- Now, Thanks to UK Metal Detecting you can get your...
- The pre-MOU MOU
- Coins Taken from University Excavation Archive?
- Stolen Heritage: Cultural Racketeering in Egypt
- UK Metal Detectorists: Farmers could have lost 500...
- Looting at Tell Ajuja Syria
- Some Problems with the US Retention of the IJA
- "So, He's a Lawyer Too", is he?
- Damascus Hide and Seek: Synagogues and Sotheby’s
- Impress your guests with these "£3,000 B.C." human...
- More and More English Anglo-Saxon Sites Being Raid...
- Loan USA Your Stuff, Kiss it Goodbye: Iraqi Jewish...
- "Münzen über alles"
- Four Straw Man Arguments in One Short Text: Coin D...
- Libyan antiquities are falling prey to extremists
- "Too many words"
- Commenting on the comments
- "Responsible Dealer" Haines Drops his Mask
- Wreck Artefact Hunters in Court
- 'Santa Maria Wreck' Looted
- CCPIA: Who Needs the Education?
- CPAC Comments: Not Letting the Facts Get in the Wa...
- 60th anniversary of the Hague Convention
- My CPAC Comment
- What the Internet is For
- "Go Forth and Be Creative": The Penultimate Push
- Antiquities theft foiled in Giza
- Vote Riggers and Dead Elephants: Coineys Cheating ...
- Collecting, Love-and-Peace wish
- Irritating America(n coin collectors)
- Mr Albert is Back
- Forget CPO, we need CPR
- US Collectors: "OUR Spoils from Egypt"
- Metal Detectorist:"Punish the Wabbits!"
- The Sorry Tale of the Surrey Searchers and the FLO
- "Responsible Detectingists" and the Fifty-Shifty F...
- They Dissolve Antiquities Don't They?
- Fifty-Shiftyism in the UK Farming Press?
- More Fifty-Shiftiness: Mrs Mop and a Metal Detecto...
- Two Jewish Sundays
- Ornithology Day - 'Archaeology' Day?
- Statue of Seneb "Probably from Meir") Loaned to Sa...
- UK Detectorists and their "Fifty-Shifty Contracts"
- Black and White
- Green Collection, well, there are collecting histo...
- New Chief Executive of CADW appointed
- Egypt MOU: Sign the Petition
- Getty Bronze: Case postponed again until June 4, 2014
- "I found lost works of Sappho" - dissolving Graeco...
- What a Collector Had in His Cellar
- Treasure Hunting Is the World's Worst Investment
- US Christian Apologist Fanatics Destroy Ancient Ar...
- Josh McDowell and Antiquitist Accountability
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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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