The PAS: Mystery Object, Mysterious Record and Needlessly-Evasive Answers

      PAS keeps details under wraps     

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Paul M. Barford and David W. J. Gill 'A Harness Fitting from Buckinghamshire on the UK Market' The Journal of Art Crime Issue 27 Spring 2022, 17-30.

Abstract
In February 2021 a Late Iron Age harness brooch was sold at auction in Derbyshire, England. The brooch had been found by an artefact hunter in Buckinghamshire, though there appear to be conflicting reports of when this took place. The paper explores the circumstances of the discovery, and the eve-of-sale recording of the brooch by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. The process of documenting the find is examined and concerns are raised about the lack of transparency.