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?
I see the Treasure Registrar's Twitter shows more than 50% of recent finds have been donated gratis. Is that typical?
ReplyDeleteMore 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...
ReplyDeletei 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.
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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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