Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Observations on Cultural Property from the Era of "Culture Club"

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US antiquities Collectors and their supporters seem to take a child-like delight in rediscovering that archaeology is “political’, that “her...

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Staffordshire Hoard - the alternative view

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Writing about the media hoo-haa about the "Staffordshire hoard" from the point of view of Ireland where unlicensed metal detecting...

"Stop sneering at Metal Detectorists": British Museum

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British Museum curator Gareth Williams has written in defence of the artefact hunter and collector. His text is a reply to a comment by Al...

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Commerce, the Looting Question and the Conscientious Collector

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Nathan Elkins (October 6, 2009, Lobbyist Celebrates "Collectors' Rights" Victory in Bulgaria, but What About the Continuous De...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

The Benefits of Not-Asking-Questions

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"But who are the people acquiring the finds from such nocturnal activities? Observant readers will know the answer". Saith David G...

Sunday, 4 October 2009

Collectors' Rights Lobbyist's Italian Conspiracy Theory

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There has recently been opened in Italy a new exhibition ' L'Arma per l'Arte: Antologia di meraviglie ', to commemorate 40 y...

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The Function of the PAS is to……

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I referred above to Peter Tompa's peevish post about David Gill's report on an Italian exhibition of recovered art. It contains a c...

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Paul Barford: British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.

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