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.

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Thomas Jefferson Opposes Potential U.S. State Department Import Restrictions?

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. I think we should add to the voices of the three Europeans objecting to the US regulation of imports of illegally exported cultural prop...

Upcoming UK Conference: New Labour's Cultural Policy and its Post-Recession Legacy

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. On 12th November 2010 at University College there will be a Cultural Trends International Conference: "A "Golden Age"? Refl...
Wednesday, 20 October 2010

"Allow market forces to take over": The US Perversion of the Intent of the 1970 UNESCO Convention

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. In reply to Kent Davies' 5th September article ' Bulldozers Destroy Priceless Archaeological Site in Cambodia , Dr Robert Steven B...

More Coins Fresh from the English Archaeological Record on Sale in Wisconsin

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. I mentioned this guy (samhan_53024) and his selling of previously undocumented archaeological material here before ( here and here ), and...
Tuesday, 19 October 2010

From Foreign Archaeological Records to a Wisconsin Collection

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. In the previous post I was looking at the eBay feedback of seller samhan_53024 who announces himself on the coiney forums as collector Rev...

Just one coin, but....

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. " It is not much to look at - a small pitted brass coin with a square hole in the centre - but this relatively innocuous piece of met...
Monday, 18 October 2010

Hackney gardeners dig up hoard of American gold coins

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. This has to be one of the weirdest items to be considered as potential Treasure... In Hackney in east London gardeners have dug up a hoard...
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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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