tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post395860580497153506..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: CBA Director on Metal Detecting RalliesPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-90018320809273121802013-08-17T01:33:53.771-07:002013-08-17T01:33:53.771-07:00So... Ton, the Responsible Detectorist maintains a...So... Ton, the Responsible Detectorist maintains a discrete silence about those Roman coins on eBay. Another tekkie time-waster indulging in some mud-slinging instead of engaging with the real issues. Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-83188864778154540792013-07-28T11:05:26.505-07:002013-07-28T11:05:26.505-07:00Why are you writing in the third person while addr...Why are you writing in the third person while addressing me?<br /><br />Neither is there any "innuendo" that I can see there....<br /><br /><i>"the ransack of huge amounts of roman coins from that country ending up on Ebay"</i> <br /><br />This is <b>Poland</b> you are talking about? <br /><br />You know, the <b>Poland</b> that was well and truly outside the Roman Empire, across the forests and wastes of barbaricum and the Carpathian mountains? That Poland? How many huge amounts of Roman coins do you think are here to be "ransacked" by your fellow metal detector-waving artefact hunters? <br /><br />So, you are talking about the <b>Poland</b> where metal detecting a Roman site will get you locked up? Selling antiquities from Poland on eBay or anywhere else will get you locked up ? That Poland?<br /><br />Tell you what Ton, as a "responsible" collector you give me the details of the folk selling those Roman coins from <b>Poland</b> on eBay and I will do my best to make sure the people supplying them are locked up. Fair enough? <br /><br />Go on, do your bit to responsibly save the heritage, what you say you have witnessed is an illegal act (dealing in cultural objects (offences) Act) and as such - and with that knowledge - if you fail to act on it you are an accessory to that legal act. So, names and evidence please and I will make sure it gets to the right place. <br /><br />IF it is true that we are indeed talking about <b>Poland</b>. Are you/we?<br /><br />Do you not see any irony in urging me to go after metal detectorists in Poland, but not your UK mates? Why not let us go after all the despoilers, non-reporters and site wreckers. Are you with me as a "responsible detectorist"? What actually do you mean by that term?Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-59592946911201535352013-07-28T01:44:58.442-07:002013-07-28T01:44:58.442-07:00For what it's worth, my potted history would b...For what it's worth, my potted history would be as follows:<br /><br />I think it would be fair to say the CBA's attitude ten years ago was intended to be supportive of a social contract: Archaeology would tolerate the damage if artefact hunters could be persuaded to deliver voluntary mitigation. <br /><br />IMO professionals and politicians had no moral right to make such a deal with the public's heritage but still it was a generous gesture that made British artefact hunters the most privileged in the world.<br /><br />In the event, as we all know, but those with a vested interest won't admit, one side failed to keep to the bargain to a catastrophic degree so there had to come a time when CBA reconsidered its position. I hope it's now. Everything points that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com