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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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- Hunting for Artefacts and 'Fun'
- Five israeli Dealers Allegedly Involved in Tax Dod...
- Vijay Nanda Stuck in India
- UK Detectorists Playing the Victim
- Jerusalem Dealers Arrested in US-prompted Bust
- More Sage Advice from Grunter's Hollow that You'll...
- Global challenges facing the antiquities market
- The myths about illegal antiquities and why you sh...
- Mutating US Interest Group
- How to Control the Internet Market in Antiquities?...
- The Hobby Lobby Settlement: A Gathering Storm for ...
- In UK New Artefact Hunting Club Started up
- Treasure Hunting Holiday Firm Set up in Oswestry
- Another Commercial Organization Eroding the UK's A...
- Tekkies Swap 'Their' Land
- NYC Antiquities Dealer Sues WSJ over Story
- Metal detectorist Sells Roman Fleet Diploma
- Detectorists Targeting Gloucestershire Farmland at...
- British 'Responsible Metal Detecting' in Orl its G...
- Code? What Code? See You.
- Paying Guest Pricey Pockets a bit of Your Past
- Deep Digger Dan, How's the Legal Action Coming on?
- Enough...
- How about '20 Years of Alt-Archaeology'?
- The Insta-Dead: the Rhetoric of the Online human r...
- 'Really, Really Passinitly Interestid in th' Past'
- You don't Need to be an Expert to Understand How t...
- Hands off the Antiquities, USA
- Tel Dothan Pots 'Contemporary with Abraham' Green ...
- Belgium is the "weak link" in the fight against tr...
- Bible Bumble: The Befuddled Build-Up to the New Mu...
- Privatisation of Knowledge Production Limits Criti...
- Palmyra artifacts recovered by Syrian Army
- Portable Antiquities Scheme may Contain Traces of ...
- Dumbdown 'Engaging with the Past', First 'Metal De...
- Egypt, Site Guards Murdered
- Dealers' Associations Scraping the Barrel
- EU on Illicit Cultural Property
- An American 'Global Heritage Alliance'
- MOU Comment from Mar-a-Logo?
- Academics Handling Portable Antiquities
- Basra policeman found a "treasure" of antiquities
- A Challenge to Apologists of Metal Detectorist Col...
- Hungary Buys Second Half of the Sevso treasure
- EU Plans Tough Checks on 'One of the Most Persiste...
- Roissy Again and the Thai Connection
- American Collector acquires Trophies out of 'Passi...
- Can You See the Forest for the Trees?
- More Laundering by Misdescription - "Clay Objects"
- Hobby Lobby Case Shocking
- CCPIA Public Comments ('Tips of Submitting Effecti...
- My Libyan CPAC comment
- The Post's View Opinion Hobby Lobby emboldens a bl...
- Former Head of the FBI’s International Art Theft S...
- Victory over ISIL Proclaimed in Iraq's Mosul
- Are You a Keen Green Scholar?
- Netanyahu accuses UNESCO of 'Denial of the Past'
- Bible Museum: Hands off Our Asses and Illicit Cunies!
- US 'Soft Power' in Catastrophic Decline:
- "Michael Lewis of the Portable Antiquities Scheme ...
- Laundering by Misdescription Rife in 'Art' World
- FLO Expresses Willingness to Converse About Europe...
- The Hamburg G20 Leaders’ Statement on Countering T...
- Terrific treasure trail - Charnwood Museum
- Mammoth Metal Detecting Archaeology Scam
- Artefact Hunting in Austria, for the Oxfordshire FLO
- Friday Retrospect: Archaeology and an Inability to...
- Collectors Donate Unpapered Antiquities to Museums...
- Pride Comes Before a Fall: The Tainting of the Gre...
- What Collectors Need to Accept
- More Misleading information from Dealers' Lobbyist
- Evidence of Consortium Hoarding looted Iraqi Artef...
- Hobby Lobby Boss Tryin' to Look Cool in a Jaunty H...
- Hebron, Tomb of the Patriarchs Palestinian Heritag...
- The Hobby Lobby Case and the Black Market in Porta...
- Moss and Baden on the Bible Museum Collection - No...
- 'Did not Notice' Red Flags, or Deliberately Ignore...
- Some Comments on Hobby-Lobby Looty-Booty
- A Book to Look out for...
- Laundering by Misdescription Again, a Common Pract...
- Representing the No-Questions-Asked Trade
- 'Settlement' in Hobby Lobby Smuggled Artefacts Case
- The Road to Hell
- Bronze 'Erotic' group from 'South Arabia' in Bonhams
- Getting Portable Antiquities Cheap: The Moroccan D...
- Coinfondle Buffoonery Time Again
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
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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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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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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
1 comment:
How about authenticated and documented collecting history?
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