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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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Blog Archive
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- Battlefield Digger Relics Cause Disruptive Securit...
- America, Implement the Convention Properly
- Plymouth Herald and the Pig
- The Reasons for the "Need" to Acquire an Object Wi...
- Looting of antiquities is as much a problem in US ...
- How to Spot a Looter in Utah
- Collectors' Colonialist and Supremacist Ideology
- "Finds Frenzy", Money to be Made
- Greedy Collectors and their Cultural Victims
- The Taunton "Northwest Frontier" Wreath
- More American Moaning about Artefact Sales
- US Civil War battlefield looted,
- Gotta Hellenistic Wreath to Sell Anonymously? Take...
- Thinking of Buying Antiquities? Read the Terms and...
- European Union licences plan ‘could hit London art...
- Israel Antiquities Authority Plan To Excavate Jude...
- Retentionism in UK National Art 'policy'
- Mali jihadi Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to plead guilty
- Operation Chronos Investigates Another UK Metal De...
- IAPN and PNG Protection Assistance Scheme (PAS)
- IAPN and PNG Statement on Greek MOU FAIL
- The True Face of Treasure Hunting
- Tears Shed, Remedy Simple
- ISIL Attacks Behind the Lines
- Oh, What's This? "Not a Carrier bag in Site"
- Money for Carrier bag Full of Lenborough Coins
- Read the Comments to CPACommittee on the proposed ...
- US (Yawn) "Meeting Regarding Sale of Human Remains...
- Sign this Petition to Stop Destruction Of British ...
- Britain's Portable Antiquities Heritage
- Anorak Pilfering of Archaeological Record in Wells
- The Trail of the UK's Lost History
- Portable Antiquities: "Money for the Bad Guys"?
- Portable Antiquities Collecting, the Vice Driving ...
- France returns Nok Terracotta illegally exported f...
- British Museum Closed by Climate Protestors
- How Much of the Archaeological Information Destroy...
- Karaoke PAS: The Spin
- The Rabbi and the "Polish Death Camps" Lies
- Cemetery Vandalism in UK
- Cardiologist Buys Antiquities in London - Seized i...
- Meanwhile... 62 years later in the UK....
- The New Face of Metal Detecting
- Chicago Goes Bonkers
- Leningrad Cowboys and the fake Artefacts
- Italy Gets Smugglers of Looted Archaeological Mate...
- Dirty Wallets
- Finds Friday, Member of Public Finds:... a Pyramid
- Army Base at Palmyra
- Plovdiv Helmet Surfaces Again
- How to Approach Artefact Collecting
- Ukrainian Border Guards Prevent Art Smuggling
- Hidden History/ Lost History: Gill Looks at Ghey
- Dark Heritage: Collectors' Motives in Question
- Legal Artefact Hunting Does not Prevent Illegal Ar...
- Universal Museums, the View from Toronto
- Norfolk Museums Helps the Looters of British Archa...
- More "Polish Death Camps" hate-speech: American He...
- Joni Needs to take a Closer Look: Invitation to Joni
- Polish treasure Hunters Insist they are Right
- Nineveh Southwest Palace
- So-called Crosby Garrett Helmet six years on
- A Message from Silas Grebkesh
- Department of State Wise to Coin Collecting Timewa...
- Where’s the Corporate Responsibility for Dodgy Ant...
- Treasure Hunting in Poland
- The Use and Abuse of Historiography
- May 9th Deadline Upon US Collectors
- Beyond the Pale: More British Interference in Irel...
- The English Disease: So-called PAS a "Disastrous A...
- Church Thief Lands in Jail
- Bolivian antiquities on Sale by UK Dealer
- Swiss Remove Anti-Trafficking Police Officer
- Polish Take on UK Bigotry
- Friday Retrospect US MOUs "Obeying Uncle Sam"
- Cities are where it's at
- Brain-Rotting Alert: "No Collector Left Behind" in...
- Responsible Hoard Finder, There Are Some
- Aerial Photos of Palmyra
- Spot the difference
- The End...
- Press Freedom Day Today, but not if you're reading...
- Once upon a time...
- United States of Apathy
- Collecting Coins Seems to Rot the Brain
- Targeting the Archaeology: Until There is None Left
- Send the looted vigango home
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
The press service of the Ukrainian Security S... -
"We ask the question. Is Metal Detecting Ruining Archaeology?" ummm, yeah... duh. And it's not just the "nighthawks"...
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A Mother Goddess figurine, dating back 9,000 years, discovered in the 1960s during excavat... -
A chip on the shoulder: @graceygrumble 1 month ago (edited) Detectorists and 'amateur' historians have made incalculable contributi...
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The guys claiming on social media that super-accurate measurements with extremely sophisticated machinery of 'ancient' stone vases... -
An ancient site was damaged by artefact hunters who accidentally discovered an Etruscan cemetery on their land in Citta della Pieve, locat...
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The UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has decided to grant provisional enhanced pr...
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Out of concern for public safety... The State Nuseum of GULAG History in Moscow , the only state museum in Russia de...
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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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