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, 19 December 2013

Credit Where Credit is Due: Black List Shortens

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Readers will know that for a number of (I think, good) reasons, I am very sceptically-disposed towards the Portable Antiquities Scheme and...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Do You Own This?

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I was looking at the recording of Roman brooches by the PAS this morning. Tragic. The literature most commonly cited by British archaeolog...
Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Controversial Decision on Smuggled Rosenberg Diaries

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Risking more conflict with what proved last time I expressed my opinion on this ( Smuggled Alfred Rosenberg Diary Found in US Monday, 10 ...
Monday, 16 December 2013

Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Jan 2014 Issues of "Treasure Hunting" and "The Searcher"

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I gave up taking Treasure Hunter magazine a long time ago, on doctor's orders, but the January 2014 number has the delayed PAS Annua...

Focus on UK Metal Detecting: What the PAS Say and What the two Hobby Magazines Tell us

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I have already discussed what Mike Lewis of the PAS has said recently about artefact hunting. His organization has just published its 2...

Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Hobby Magazines "Supporting" Responsible Detecting

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In another post I count how many recordable archaeological finds are shown on the pages of two current issues of metal detecting magazines...
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Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Confrontational Critic Rebuked

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For some reason a certain south coast metal detectorist has taken a dislike to this blog, Heritage Action and over the past few months has...
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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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