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.

Friday, 24 January 2014

Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Shady, Sinister and Dishonest", Is He Talking About Me?

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In what seems to me to be relatively clear English, I wrote : English Heritage's guidance on " responding to heritagecrime in ...
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Bonkers Britain will be "Portableising" Ancient Woodland Now?

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The British Environmental Secretary Owen Patterson has taken a leaf out of the Historic Environment Mismanagement book. Just as the latte...
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Focus on UK Metal Detecting: It's Easy!!

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Poor Baz Thugwit, his mates all urge him to fill in a PAS survey, to "help the hobby", but he hesitates. What if it asks questio...
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Thursday, 23 January 2014

2013 Annual Report of Syrian Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums

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Bearing in mind the Inspectors cannot be getting out to the more remote areas as much as they'd like and also I suspect an understand...

Cultural Heritage Lawyer on ACCG Mistake and the Responsibilities of Importers

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Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire has a post on his blog today reminding us of the judicial verdict on the coineys' claims abo...
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The Next US Coin Collectors' Comedy Turn

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It is rather difficult these days to tell whether US ancient coin collectors are jackassing around or are trying to make a serious contri...
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Focus on Metal Detecting: Fill in the Form Me Hearties and Help The Hobby

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The PAS are, it seems, desperate to get people filling in their Audience Survey . On a metal detecting forum near you, member 'GiXeR M...
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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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