Lenborough Hoard does a Runner

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Readers will remember the Lenborough Hoard "excavated" at Christmas 2014 by the FLO in a narrow hoik hole and tipped onto a farmer's kitchen table from a carrier bag. Over on social media,the lady who'd got a big grant to publish this excavation (not the FLO) to - I would venture a guess - try and show that "nothing bad happened really" has just made this announcement:

"Lenborough Hoard Project 💙 @LenboroughHoard 23m
This account is being retired. The analysis is complete and a summary will be included in the forthcoming SCBI catalogue of the hoard. #Cnut #coins twitter.com/LenboroughHoar…"

[Lenborough Hoard Project 💙 @LenboroughHoard Sep 28, 2019
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]Hmm. SCBI = "Syllogue of Coins of the British Isles". When's "forthcoming"?

So she apparenly does not anticipate any substantive discussion in the long term of the results of her long and expensive project processing and analysing this hoard and its recovery methods? Why is that? Is her report the final word ever? Hardly.

If this hoard was recovered as "citizen archaeology", why is the publication in an object-centric format and not an archaeological monograph series? There will be a LOT of archaeology to discuss when this publication is out, is the author running from that? Looks rather like it. Mind you, I would too given the way this hoard was handled by British archaology from day one of its discovery.

So it has taken a decade and X thousand quid...