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, 31 March 2024

How to use Metal Detectors on You Tube?

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A group of YouTubers with metal detectors and spades calling themselves LOST CIVILIZATION apparently consider themselves to be an educatio...
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Saturday, 30 March 2024

Stolen Fragments

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           Erased and reordered past        Due out 17 September, Roberta Mazza's book ' Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Fa...
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Norfolk Beach-Find Handaxes for Sale (UPDATED - Good News for Norfolk Nighthawks)

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  In the artefact-hunter-filled United Kingdom, seller " fishes-of-the-world " (2830) located in Bacton, Norfolk, UK [Private Re...

Raubgrabung on the Eastern Front on Video

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              .              Metal Detecting WWII Battlegrounds 573K subscribers My name is Chris, I’m 29 years old and I have a passion fo...
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Thursday, 28 March 2024

Ukraine: Seized Romanesque Slab Deposited in Museum While Investigations Continue

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              The seized slab ( UNN )                    On March 27th, Andriy Kostin, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, together with Ros...

British Museum Initiates Proceedings Against Ex-Curator Over Alleged Thefts

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Artnet reports: ' The British Museum Initiates Proceedings Against Ex-Curator Over Alleged Thefts ' (Eileen Kinsella March 26, 2024...
Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Trying to Get Poland's New Metal Detecting Legislation Reversed.

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Petycja: Protestujemy przeciw zmianie prawa dla poszukiwaczy zabytków The amendment to the Act on the Protection and Care of Historical...
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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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