tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post6590399013896565038..comments2024-03-18T12:47:37.136-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Newark Aircraft Crash Site QuestionsPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-28965492719731479902009-03-29T00:07:00.000-07:002009-03-29T00:07:00.000-07:00Well, this is something I think we would all like ...Well, this is something I think we would all like to know. The PAS is keeping very quiet - but whose money and whose heritage is it we are discussing here? Should the British public be required to enter a FOI request for the information that is theirs by rights? Why are they constantly being told only half the story about artefact hunting, hunters and their finds? Where's the transparency of heritage decision-making here? <BR/><BR/>In any case grubbing this torc up in the dark as the finder candidly describes in the latest article was hardly what the Code of Practice prescribes. Again this is something the PAS is time and time again failing to point out in its press releases. <BR/><BR/>The finder mentions he was afraid if he left it in the ground somebody else might come along in the night and take it. Let's take this argument to its 'logical' conclusion. (Is it actually a logical conclusion if somebody is digging in the middle of a field at dusk that a passing "nighthawk" WILL inevitably spot him? That rather suggests that this "metal detectorist" thinks that "nighthawking" and "nighthawkers" are not as thin on the ground as a certain institution's interpretation of a certain recent strategic report would suggest)....<BR/><BR/>The longer and deeper the finder digs the more of a trace he's going to leave for anyone to come along and find other elements that might have been buried there. When he took the decision to start to dig it out, the finder had no way of knowing it was not a hoard or a grave. This is why the Treasure Act Code of Practice says they should leave it in the ground. Not that anybody pays any attention to that. Not that the finders are in any way penalised for ignoring that. <BR/><BR/>What also is the betting that before long finders of Treasure will be asked not to write for newspapers their OWN accounts of what they did and did not do without clearing it with their "partners" in the PAS/BM first, just to make sure they do not say anything out of turn?Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-57931757092029217932009-03-28T05:54:00.000-07:002009-03-28T05:54:00.000-07:00So did he get the full reward on the grounds his b...So did he get the full reward on the grounds his behaviour was exemplary?<BR/><BR/>Or was it reduced, on the grounds it wasn't?Marcus Preenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03603874627751387853noreply@blogger.com