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A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
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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Blog Archive
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- Academic Will Not Address the Question
- More Commercial Artefact hunts
- What is "Responsible Artefact Hunting"? Archaeolog...
- Archaeologists Throwing Stones
- PAS Dumb-Dumb-Dumb-Talk-Down
- Seller Dartmoorpixie's got a Dead Body: Hundred qu...
- Timbuktu Monument Destruction Trial in Hague
- Friday Retrospect: Moral Pygmyism among UK Detecto...
- "Not Hard to Understand, Really"
- Archaeology SOLD OUT: Lincolnshire "Celebrates" Pi...
- Hidden camera shows how IS destroyed the Palmyra w...
- People Find Things without Metal Detectors
- Portable Antiquities Scam
- "Wotta Luvverly Objick" Drooling from the Dumbdown...
- Who'd have Thought it?
- NCMD News
- Portable Antiquities Collectors and an Alter-Archa...
- The Bloody Antiquities Trade
- Syrian Antiquities Openly on Sale From the Garages...
- Nefertiti bust 'stolen' from Berlin Museum
- Walls Against Change
- Sources of Knowledge
- Lightweight PAS Finds-Fluff Alert
- Red Flag Lack of Commitment to Transparency in Aus...
- Merovingian Queen's Seal Found in Norfolk? Unlikely.
- Vacancy at PAS
- Iraq War Loot in America: Who Owns Saddam's Gun?
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali RIP
- "Responsible Metal Detecting" and the Heritage Debate
- Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime Questions an...
- Dutch Expect Much of Ukrainians While Trampling Ov...
- Artefact hunters sentenced in southern Oregon
- Bottle Top Rally Find a Mystery
- Tintagel Arthurian Theme Park
- Syria War Dead figures revised
- Collector's Approach to "Understanding the ancient...
- A Museum Closes
- US Sickos Support Smuggled Coins
- Cumwhitton goes on Display
- HE Heritage Crime Confuse the Issue
- Dutch Archaeologist Wants More Dots
- Europe's other Migrant Problem: UK History Snatchers
- "Sussex Detectorist" Hides
- The Alex Bliss Collection in February 2016
- "once again the hobbyist bails out the government"
- Tautology and Missing the Point
- Reserve Collections to Go?
- "Archaeologists are modern day grave robbers and o...
- Annoying Artefact Photobombs: May "Captivate" but ...
- What happens next in Aleppo will shape Europe’s fu...
- Subhash Kapoor trial begins
- Donna Yates on the Spot on You Tube
- "We are all Gilgamesh" So Carry on Buying?
- Flanders Battlefield Excavations; Methodological Q...
- Pilkington Collection
- Dutch Art Theft Myth-making Still Hammering Away a...
- A Book to Look Out For
- "All the paperwork had been destroyed"
- A “Highly Dysfunctional World Where Record Keeping...
- Heritage Management, English Style
- CIfA Statement onChannel Five's Battlefield Diggers
- Remedy for Illegal Artefact Hunting?
- Northern Ephemera on Battlefield Diggers
- Archaeology's Challenges, Some views
- Numismatic Hate-blogging
- The Question of Stolen Antiquities
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
The press service of the Ukrainian Security S... -
A chip on the shoulder: @graceygrumble 1 month ago (edited) Detectorists and 'amateur' historians have made incalculable contributi...
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"We ask the question. Is Metal Detecting Ruining Archaeology?" ummm, yeah... duh. And it's not just the "nighthawks"...
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A Mother Goddess figurine, dating back 9,000 years, discovered in the 1960s during excavat... -
An ancient site was damaged by artefact hunters who accidentally discovered an Etruscan cemetery on their land in Citta della Pieve, locat...
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The guys claiming on social media that super-accurate measurements with extremely sophisticated machinery of 'ancient' stone vases... -
The UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has decided to grant provisional enhanced pr...
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Out of concern for public safety... The State Nuseum of GULAG History in Moscow , the only state museum in Russia de...
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A Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting in England and Wales (2018)
I started this counter at midnight of 15th July 2018. Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting.
Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Erik Nemeth et al. Art World Intelligence
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Michael McCullough LLC Blog
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Sam Hardy 'Conflict Antiqiuties'
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- The Punching Bag Larry Rothfield
- Things You Can't Take Back
- Trafficking Culture (Glasgow)
- Tumblr - Cultural Security
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Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Code of Practice for "Responsible Metal Detecting" in England and Wales
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- Cultural Security
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- 2015 Petition: "Für den Erhalt des privaten Sammelns [sic]"
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of EGYPT (Docket DOS-2014-0008)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
- Past Times and Present tensions (John Hooker)
False "Barford" Blogs, Not Actually by Paul Barford
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
- MENA - Middle East and North Africa
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
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