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.

Wednesday, 3 November 2021

"Secret-West Norfolk Hoard" Goes to Inquest

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  Some of the gold coins discovered in a west Norfolk field ( Photograph: British Museum/PA ). Readers may remember the Portable Antiquities...
Tuesday, 2 November 2021

UK's PAS Supports Partners' Acquisitiveness, ignore Issues [Updated]

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  Durham FLO Ben Westwood   @FLODurhamFLO   3h Returning a huge batch of finds this afternoon, over 100 objects, including this amazing #Vik...
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Lost Collector Seeks Help [Updated]

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Collector JJ Walker Oct 28 2021: Re: Help with identifying what this Roman bronze is . Looks like a hippocamp. Bought at online auction. Lis...
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Monday, 1 November 2021

Nothing Sacred: Collection Crassness Spotted, "Halloween" Philadelphia USA

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Meanwhile, in the USA: Nick Herman @herman_nick_ If this Halloween-decorated 14th-century Cologne reliquary bust in a random Philadelphia ...
Saturday, 30 October 2021

Citizen Activists Lead the Hunt for Antiquities Looted From Nepal

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              Nepal ( Wikipedia )             Roshan Mishra, director of the Taragaon Museum in Kathmandu, has creasted a digital archive, w...
Friday, 29 October 2021

US Returns 250 Antiquities to India after Belated Probe into Stolen Art

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                        Shiva                     Authorities in the United States have returned about 250 antiquities to India in a long-...
Thursday, 28 October 2021

Roadmap for the G20 to Combat the Illicit Trade

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Antiquities Coalition: This year, for the first time, the Group of Twenty (G20) under the Italian Presidency gathered heads of state and gov...
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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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