A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
More than anything, looking at the number of times the same artefacts pop up for sale on the internet, it represents the saturation of the market due to number of artefacts hoiked each day. Hawking vervels and so on are becoming less easy to shift...
i think if you look at PAS official figures it is on average about 7/12% of finds donated gratis.vast majority of people are treasure hunting not amateur archaeologists as some would want us to believe. kyri.
Yes, I would like to see Treasure Registrar produce a proper dedicated report on this, with a year-by-year spreadsheet analysis of what, by whom and what value for both rewards paid (and gratefully accepted) by finders and landowners and amounts waived (and by which party). How much did we pay for Treasure in 2006 (for example) and on what, and how much did we pay in 2016?
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.
"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)
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
4 comments:
I see the Treasure Registrar's Twitter shows more than 50% of recent finds have been donated gratis. Is that typical?
More than anything, looking at the number of times the same artefacts pop up for sale on the internet, it represents the saturation of the market due to number of artefacts hoiked each day. Hawking vervels and so on are becoming less easy to shift...
i think if you look at PAS official figures it is on average about 7/12% of finds donated gratis.vast majority of people are treasure hunting not amateur archaeologists as some would want us to believe.
kyri.
Yes, I would like to see Treasure Registrar produce a proper dedicated report on this, with a year-by-year spreadsheet analysis of what, by whom and what value for both rewards paid (and gratefully accepted) by finders and landowners and amounts waived (and by which party). How much did we pay for Treasure in 2006 (for example) and on what, and how much did we pay in 2016?
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