A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Article 50 Solves Europe's Problems with Metal Detecting
"It's the day in which Britain lost more power and influence than in any other day of my peacetime life” - Lord Heseltine
Article 50 will be activated by a rabid Tory suicide squad today:
At least that solves Europe's metal detectorist problem. Goodbye ECMD.
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Indeed! One of the main strands of the European Council for Metal Detecting is to lobby the European Council (and Irish legislators) to take the British system seriously and eventually adopt it so it's a small consolation on this sad day that they will now be met with hostility, incredulity and contempt wherever they go beyond these shores. Europe no longer has to maintain a fraternal tolerance towards cultural knowledge theft. Which is ironic, given that 89% of detectorists, most of whom are guilty of it, voted Leave.
I guess today we have to take consolation where we can find it. (My kids are taking it in their applications for Irish citizenship, which are going well!)
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.
"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)
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
1 comment:
Indeed! One of the main strands of the European Council for Metal Detecting is to lobby the European Council (and Irish legislators) to take the British system seriously and eventually adopt it so it's a small consolation on this sad day that they will now be met with hostility, incredulity and contempt wherever they go beyond these shores. Europe no longer has to maintain a fraternal tolerance towards cultural knowledge theft.
Which is ironic, given that 89% of detectorists, most of whom are guilty of it, voted Leave.
I guess today we have to take consolation where we can find it. (My kids are taking it in their applications for Irish citizenship, which are going well!)
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