Roger Bland on Finds Allocation Documentation from Landowner

Writing of illegal artefact hunting, Roger Bland makes the case for individual documentation of transfer of ownership from the landowner to artefact hunter by which title to sell can be established:

Another way of tackling the problem is to make it harder for the thieves to sell their finds (Bland 2009). At present, it is too easy for the 'nighthawks' to sell their finds to dealers who are happy to purchase such objects without checking that the vendors are acting legally, with the agreement of the landowners.