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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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- Senior Bulgarian Civil Servant Caught with Diverse...
- Sekhemka buyer may be private US Collector
- Was Palmyra a "Pawn in Assad's Game with the West"?
- Some Recent Looting at Palmyra?
- US Duplicity on Looter Rewards
- The movement of cultural property in 2016
- How to tell a Looted Object?
- The idea of Looted Antiquities Abhorrent in Theory...
- Britain's Archaeologicalrecord to Knowledge Mill i...
- Sam Hardy Speaks at UNESCO HQ
- Boris Johnson loses sight of the ball
- Yet Another Kapoor Piece in Australian Museum?
- Actually, I think these Detectorists are Serious....
- Palmyra Back in Government Hands
- Syrian Government Troops Now in Palmyra
- 'Saving Trees from Dying and Rotting' Use it up Now
- Don't ask no Questions...
- First (?) Photos of 'Post-ISIL' Palmyra ruins
- Palmyra in Front Line Again
- Man Jailed for Smuggling Torah Scroll out of Yemen
- Culture Change
- Another "Finds Friday" coming up...
- before you speak to the media
- Antiquities Trade: Tackle Demand
- Narrativisation of Dugups
- UK Metal Detectorist Literacy Skills
- Egypt: Antiquities Minister Replaced
- Washington Bible Museum After-the-Fact Propriety?
- The Symes Hoard is back in Italy
- Pocklington and the logic of Metal Detecting
- Russia Steps up Airstrikes as Syrian Army Prepares...
- Italy MOU with US
- Working Together...
- National Museum in Kinshasa Collection Deaccession?
- You'll not hear this from the PAS...
- Inside Palmyra Museum
- More Morons with Detectors
- "The Biggest Metal Detecting Challenge of All Time"
- Asia Week Arrest
- James Cuno's usual argument
- Paul Barford Buys a Metal Detector
- If we Cannot STOP Irresponsible portable antiquiti...
- "Nazi War" Battlefield Diggers with Exceptionally ...
- Archaeological Establishment Looks the Other Way
- "Finds Friday" on Saturday It's St Joseph's day, Yay!
- Friday retrospect: Private 'Curation' of Archaeolo...
- Asia Week Bust-Fest, Fifth Dealer is Involved
- All Six of Syria's UNESCO WHL Sites Damaged During...
- In Asia Week, Another Bust
- Fakes in Israeli Collections
- FOURTH Alleged 'Hidden Idol' Object seized During ...
- Notable by their silence.
- Private School Heritage Pilferers?
- Metal Detecting Facadism
- Asia Week and the Feds, Another Seizure
- Film: Brent Easter HSI
- Special Pleading
- Shakeup in Russian Ministry of Culture
- Finder gets Praise
- Russia Withdrawing from Syria
- "Nazi War" Battlefield Diggers
- Dealers Association Accuse US Government of Mislea...
- Commercial Rally Organizer Grabs Part of Reward
- Someone's Telling Fibs
- The Financial Times "Collecting" Columnist and Blo...
- Baldwin's Don't Handle... Questions very well.
- A Size Big Enough to Matter
- Polish protests as government rejects court ruling
- Escalating the War on Looting'
- Yobs with Spades
- Friday retrospect: The Fellowship of the Antiquitists
- Syria ceasefire 'largely holding' but violations
- Discussion of Responsible Collecting
- Responsible Collecting: The Need to Address the Is...
- ICE recovers stolen Indian artifacts from major au...
- No Substitute for Collectors' Due Diligence
- Who are They Trying to Kid?
- Russians attack Tadmor/Palmyra (?)
- "Hooker FSA" and the Harley
- "The Celts", they say "Could not Solder or Weld"
- Like a Thief in the Night: British Museum Involved...
- March the Tenth
- Irresponsible Artefact Collecting: "Important" Kno...
- New "Thoughts" on No-Questions-Asked Dealing, from...
- More on Finds Salting: There is No Hiding From...
- More Suspicious Finds on Commercial Rallies
- Making Archaeology "Relevant"? More PAS Dumbdown G...
- Above the Law? Twisting and Turning from UK Artefa...
- PAS Just for Metal Detectorists Now?
- Come Off it Ofcom
- Museum Misleads Public About Donations
- Palmyra in Happier Times
- When a Meerkat has more Intelligence than a Coin D...
- Twisted Exegesis of ACCG Coin Dealer
- Coin Dealer Gets Confused
- Lying, Thieving British Bâtards
- ACCG Dealer Defends Right to Sell Grey Market Arte...
- The Value of Portable Antiquities With Documentation
- European Collector with Scruples, Dealer unnamed
- Spin, spin, spin away...
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A chip on the shoulder: @graceygrumble 1 month ago (edited) Detectorists and 'amateur' historians have made incalculable contributi...
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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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