tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post2846409782466149409..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: English Detectorists Say They Dug a Metre into Roman Site in the DarkPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-1531022604441884392008-10-31T22:55:00.000-07:002008-10-31T22:55:00.000-07:00Mr Brun: This shows a "Buckingham" hoard which Gil...Mr Brun: This shows a "Buckingham" hoard which Gill Evans of Central Searchers (whose husband Richard she says helped Mr Phillips "recover" the original Cold Brayfield hoard in December 2006) tells me was taken <B>a week after</B> the nocturnal fossicking described by the finders at the Coroner's inquest and is, she told me in an email answering my query about these photos on the Central Searchers website, <B>a different findspot</B>. She says bluntly there is "nothing about the Cold Brayfield hoard find" on their website. <BR/><BR/>So I repeat my question to you which I asked (off list) when you posted this comment yesterday, how do you - based in Norway - come to the conclusion that this photo shows the actual site of the discovery of the Cold Brayfield hoard at the time of the initial discovery?<BR/><BR/>This photo shows Julian Watters of Verulamium Museum digging not Mr Phillips and Mr Plasom. Did you not recognise him? According to local detectorist Mrs Evans, whose website you link to, this was taken a week after the events described. <BR/><BR/>The account I commented on actually cites the finders' own words. What they say is certainly worthy of commenting on and discussing. If it really happened the way the account seems to suggest then "best practice" was not followed. <B>And I see nothing whatsoever wrong in pointing that out.</B> Instead of, by their own account, grubbing out as much as they could IN THE DARK, they should have backfilled the hole and called the PAS as soon as they realised a hoard was in question. This is what the Treasure Act Code of Practice lays down - for if you look more carefully you will see that THAT is what I was discussing. The CoP furthermore states that if this "best practice" is not followed, the reward may be reduced. If these guys are going to get the full reward despite what the public have been told aboiut the way this piece of the national heritage was recovered, I sincerly hope that the PAS publish a statement why and setting out the true facts of the case. From what I read in the newspaper, I cannot be alone in having doubts whether merely reporting the find is enough to qualify. Read the Code of Practice (the paragraphs I quote in my blog post). Let us see some proper discussion of the archaeological implications of the Treasure Act twelve years after it and its Code of Practuice came into force in England. Wales and Northern Ireland. Not just "what a lot of nice goodies we have found", but what information has been obtained about the archaeological context of items dug out (as here) from undisturbed archaeological contexts below ploughsoil.Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-16995916928803111212008-10-30T12:22:00.000-07:002008-10-30T12:22:00.000-07:00Now does the post above fit with this??It was exca...Now does the post above fit with this??<BR/>It was excavated correctly. http://www.centralsearchers.co.uk/Dave.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com