Article 9 Each Party undertakes: to conduct educational actions with a view to rousing and developing an awareness in public opinion of the value of the archaeological heritage for understanding the past and of the threats to this heritage [...]
Article 10 Each Party undertakes: [...] to restrict, as far as possible, by education, information, vigilance and co-operation, the transfer of elements of the archaeological heritage obtained from uncontrolled finds or illicit excavations [...]
The UK pays only the most cursory lip service to these principles, and on the PAS website we see that there is even an expensive government-funded body that is going precisely in the opposite direction.
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