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.

Saturday, 27 May 2023

Bubbly Fields on Merovingian Coins: The 'Peckham Hoard'

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Over on social media some coineys were getting excited a while ago about an old report on the small hoard of seventh-century English and Mer...

Gianfranco Adornato on Some Objects Repatriated From Dodgy US Market

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             Gianfranco Adornato  il Giornale Dell'Arte   Gianfranco Adornato is Professor of Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology at the...

Crimean Coin Taken by Soviets from Museum Collection Sold for Record Price

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A gold stater from Panticapaeum the Greek colony on the Kerch peninsula in Crimea was sold at a Numismatica Ars Classica auction in Zurich l...
Friday, 26 May 2023

Faith Stolen/Faith Misplaced: How do Dealers do Due Diligence? (24)

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According to the social media site Lost Arts of Nepal @LostArtsofNepal [1,883 Followers] ( Faith Stolen – Breaking News May 25 ): "Th...
Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Old Maps and Russian State Propaganda

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Valery Zorkin, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia had a working meeting with the head of state (President of the Russian Federa...
Sunday, 21 May 2023

Physical Evidence of the 2014-2024 War in Ukraine

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BBC: ' Satellite images reveal Russian defences before major assault ' 22nd May 2023. Satellite analysis by BBC Verify has uncovere...

Collectors and their Notorious Inability to Profit from Sharing Information

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              Bit of a yellow coffin              Over on Tuppenny Tim's foundering Ancient Artifacts forum, where now only a handful of...
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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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