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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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- Green Waste and the Magnetometer
- PAS says goodbye to Roger Bland
- Van Crabben Introduces Confusion to Middle East Na...
- HSI Press Release Stupidity in Ohio
- How Many are Friends, How Many Foes?
- From Mosul to Munich?
- Metal Detectorists Caught After Late Night Helicop...
- Petition: Extradite Minnesotan Walter James Palmer...
- Roger Bland Leaves BM
- The Geldermalsen Wreck Site /"Nanking Cargo".
- Coates will be there to advise Ted Cruz
- What Kind of "private Collecting"?
- Museum Director Criticises Opponents of Germany's ...
- PAS Judges Metal Detecting Competition
- Licit Antiquities and the German "der gewissenhaft...
- Out of Place Antiquities on the British Market
- Museums Journal: Roger Bland quits BM
- The Real Threat to Collecting: Collectors' Attitudes
- UK Metal Detectorists and the Heritage Debate
- The Antiquities Trade: The Virus of Denial
- German Draft Legislation: Where's the Scan?
- Egyptian Artefact Smuggling and Transnational Orga...
- Jackboot-fantasists in the Mall
- Who Will "Support Responsible Antiquity Collecting"?
- German Collectors Guilty
- Antiquities Smuggling is ....
- Twenty answers from the LVA PAS (1) Starting as th...
- The Future Shape of the PAS (2) The Answers to 20 ...
- The Future Shape of the PAS (3) Comments
- Why Coins Matter
- 'Farmer Brown has Suggestion About Increasind Arte...
- Portant Issues Trailer
- ADCAEA Hypocrisy Exposed
- Muddling Public Opinion in Charnwood
- Bonkers Due Diligence Claims from Germany
- Collectors Sign up in Droves with the Lowest of th...
- Who is Anti-Collector? No-Questions-Asked Dealers ...
- Counting the Sheep in the German Dugup Antiquites ...
- Beh, Beh, Coin Collectors Urged to Bleat
- Germany: Due Diligence as it is Now: What is the p...
- Treasure Chest 2015: Exhibition of Metal Detector ...
- Coiney Finch Insults Muslims
- Abu Sayyaf a Metal Detectorist?
- Collectors' Concerns
- The NCMD, the metal detecting policeman and Nighth...
- Comment to CPO
- Winter Dodges Issue
- PAS Meltdown Coverage so far
- Abu Sayyaf Stash: The State Department Elucidates
- PAS Meltdown: Muddy Cottons on...
- More on the Added Value of a Collecting History
- 'Abu Sayyaf Stash' Plaques
- Slackjaw Flubbering about Creslow
- From Erbil to Baghdad: That Abu Sayyaf Nefertiti
- "Wot Makes Tekkis Larf, ROTFLMAO"
- 'High End' Antiquities
- Abu Sayyaf Stash - "maybe all fakes"?
- Odyssey: "Looting Threatens HMS Victory"
- FLO Daubney and the Dogtag
- Museum asks detectorists not to melt Civil War mus...
- Syria: Antiquities Trade through Porous Northern B...
- The Draft German Cultural Property Law and Dugups
- German Cop-Out?
- The Whole Point of No-questions-asked and "Ooops-s...
- More on the Abu Sayyaf Stash
- Abu Sayyaf's Wife Held by Americans in Iraq
- ISIL Antiquities: Looking at that "Smoking Gun"
- Information and Disinformation, ISIL and the US
- Texans Protest WHL Listing
- Dodgy Dealers, Nearer than you Think
- Scale of UK Tekkie interest in the Future of the PAS
- Twenty Questions for the LVA PAS
- National Geographic on the Fall of Palmyra
- Thailand returns 16 smuggled artefacts to Cambodia
- ADCAEA Dealers - Updated list
- "Underscoring the Professionalism of our Members t...
- ADCAEA "Stop HR 1493"
- The fight to preserve Gaza’s archaeological heritage
- The Lenborough Hoard as Archaeological Damage
- Artefact Fetishism from US "Committee for Cultura...
- Artefact Mining in Alexandria
- Problems at Hôtel Drouot auction house
- Ancient Grave Disturbed in Jerusalem
- Posing as a Buyer and... what?
- "Palmyra Ruins are Intact"
- Iraq celebrates return of antiquities, appeals for...
- How Dare they?
- UK Detectorists, as Usual, not very Quick off the ...
- China Repatriation: Collectors named, Seller Prote...
- Classical Influence on US Coin Design
- What hope for the Future Viability of the PAS?
- Ivory Death and Artefact Crushing in New York Time...
- Why do it?
- The Nature of Antiquities Dealer Lobbying
- ACCG to Defend Member?
- Stakeholders "Unwelcome"
- Collector Shlomo Moussaieff Dies
- "The colonial powers should have plundered more an...
- Do UK Coin Dealers Read the Guardian?
- UK "Financing Syrian Terror"
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"We ask the question. Is Metal Detecting Ruining Archaeology?" ummm, yeah... duh. And it's not just the "nighthawks"...
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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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