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, 25 May 2014

UK Metal Detectorist: We Are The Ones That Have The Rights

The reporting of finds made on a landowner's property by artefact hunters before they take them away is referred to by one metal detec...

UK Metal Detecting: As Easy as Taking Candy from a Child

Farmer Brown (“ For the Nth time: the finds belong to the Landowner, OK? ” 24/05/2014) advises landowners As golden rules go it couldn’t...

Saturday, 24 May 2014

Artefacts recovered from USA

A cartonnage painted mummy mask from the Third Intermediate Period which US fanatics had not yet had the opportunity to dissolve in ...

Looted Objects from Sakkara Reported in Budapest and "France"

Fine Arts Museum Budapest - one of the largest Egyptological collections in central Europe The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities repor...

US Coineys: They Just Don't Get it...

"Mike Markowitz is “Second Consul” of the Ancient Numismatic Society of Washington. He has been a serious collector of ancient coins ...

UK Metal Detecting: "We put in The Hours, but They Pay Poor Hourly Rates"

Now it seems landowners (or people claiming to be farmers) can only write about metal detecting hiding their identity behind anonymous s...

Thursday, 22 May 2014

Sayles' Wife on the ACCG Board "Ensures Continuity"

It seems coiney Dave Welsh, ( he of the highly insulting ad hominem "Ancient Coins" blog ) is suffering some bad health and fe...

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About Me

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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