"looting has turned Syria’s heritage sites into “weapons of war,” with the sale of antiquities fuelling the conflict” - Open letter signed by more than 150 scholars.
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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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- Ka Nefer Nefer: One to Watch Out For
- El Salvador and the Heritage Debate
- My comment on El Salvador's MoU Extension Request
- UK Culture Secretary makes appointments to Treasur...
- EES and Petrie Museum Condemn AIA Sale of Harageh ...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: The Rape of Weyhill Fair
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: An Attempt to Hang on...
- Syria and Iraq: Heritage Training for Fighters?
- Dealers and Mud
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Why PAS Outreach is F...
- Execution of Human Rights Activist in Mosul, she C...
- Passing Through, Caught my Eye
- Ban on Trade in Syrian Antiquities Urged by Scholars
- UK Metal Detectorists Have it Out
- Hoard Hoiking criticised
- Syria Antiquities Trade Petition goes to UN
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Licence to what?
- Another of PAS's FLOs Reportedly Praises Hoard Hoi...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting Trashing Weyhill Fair
- Friday Retrospect: Israel, Rangel and Cultural Piracy
- Jordanian Idol Cave
- Greed, intrigue and murder: another day in the art...
- Militants threaten ancient sites in Iraq, Syria
- What Kind of Report has the PAS written for AC Ar...
- PAS Milliongate: Roman Grot is "Millionth Find"
- Seaton Hoard, Dug Methodically by Archaeologists: ...
- Hoard Hoiking in full Technicolour
- Detectorists Clips Available (?)
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "We Are the Good Guys"
- Focus on PAS: Homo who?
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Cart Before the Horse
- Scholars Call for U.N. to Ban Trade in Syrian Anti...
- The Portable Antiquities Scheme has by now recorde...
- PAS Narrativisation: Death by Metal detecting
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: The Chav Defence
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Hole was "Quite Delic...
- Last Night, From an FLO
- Italian police recover Etruscan sphinx stolen from...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Unplumbed Depths of L...
- A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby Family’s Bible Museum
- Due Diligence and the Intellect of a Cat
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "You may call me an i...
- Ungrounded Oddly-Tooled Odysseus, Munich Meleager,...
- Bananas to Buy Antiquities
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: That's the Way to do it.
- Sekhemka's Revenge - Disciplinary Hearing
- Bland on the ACCG
- The Bloomsbury Anti-Countdown
- Remarks at 'threats to Cultural Heritage in Iraq a...
- How ISIS Makes $3 Million A Day
- Durham Hoard Hoikers Criticised by a Lone Detectorist
- "Why not Turn a Blind Eye, Like all the Rest"?
- For Sale: Prehistoric Woolly Mammoth Skeleton
- Hoard Hoiking: A Word from the Archaeologists
- Milliongate: PAS Gone Numbers -Crazy
- Hoard Hoikers Identified?
- Focus on UK metal detecting: Two Codes.
- Focus on Metal Detecting: Hurried Hoard Hoiking on...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Hurried Hoard Hoiking...
- Weekend Hoard Hoikers: Group Photo
- Syrian Archaeology, ‘Scale of the Scandal’.
- Green Collection and the "Oldest Known Siddur"
- Gleaming in the Dust - The Looting of Egypt's Heri...
- Metal Detecting Only for Research on Kentish Counc...
- Third Arrest in Illegal Artefact Hunting Case
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Loathsome"
- Scattered Archives, Institutional Untrustworthynes...
- Is this Evidence of Ancient Time Travel?
- ADCAE Dealer from the UK "Regrets"
- ADCAEA members now have secret Guidelines
- Knell on the PAS
- Detectorists Trailer
- War Diggers Website Criticises UK Police
- War Digger Named
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: World War Two in my C...
- Mark Harrison, National Policing and Crime Advisor...
- Focus on UK Metal detecting: Worried About 'Herita...
- PAS and their "hervorragend nationale Wissenschaft"
- 5 of 6 Syrian world heritage sites have suffered s...
- Multidisciplinary Approach to Politics, Ethics and...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Went out in the day..."
- Oxfordshire Collector of Militaria Arrested
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Not interested in yo...
- What Real US Cultural Property Lawyers do...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Dysfunctional?
- Focus on UK Metal Detectorists: Crook versus the "...
- Style, Design and Ethics in a "Bible Museum"
- St Albans Bust Part of Wider Investigation
- American tourists caught with Pompeii relic
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Target - Archaeologi...
- Artefact Collector Arrested in St Albans
- 'PAS Milliongate', Scheme Records Finds for Commer...
- Another Out-of-Place Artefact in a British Field
- How to Read a Book
- St Louis Archaeologists Flog off Finds
- Aga Khan Collections on Display in Toronto
- The PAS and the Invisible, Nameless, Hoard
- Work on Dodgy Artefacts, Expect to Have to Account...
- Ka Nefer Nefer: What Did Michel van Rijn Know Seve...
- To Reduce Burden of Proof: Moratorium on the cards?
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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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