Heritage Action Clearing the Fog

Nothing to be added, nothing to be omitted here, Heritage Action say what the jobsworth archaeologists of Britain cannot be bothered to think properly about:

Conservation shame (by heritageaction)
Mark Harrison (Historic England's Head of Heritage Crime and Policing Advice) pulled no punches about recent nighthawking at Hadrian's Wall:

"We may never see or fully understand the objects taken or damaged because they have been removed from their original sites with no care or record as to their history or context."

What a crying shame that exactly the same can be said of the great bulk of "legal" detecting yet isn't.

"We may never see or fully understand the objects taken or damaged because they have been removed from their original sites with no care or record as to their history or context."

Now the shame is being compounded by a concerted attempt to discredit the academic work of Dr Sam Hardy which effectively illustrates exactly that. What have we come to in this country?

I'll just add though that tomorrow my own response to the concerted attempts of a gang of six heritage 'professionals' and academics to do just that will be going up on this blog in four consecutive posts. Not that I expect that they themselves will be a bit bothered, water off a duck's back. But those few who are actually interested in there being a proper debate on the issues surrounding what these six academics refuse to call 'Collection-Driven Exploitation of the Archaeological Record' might like to watch this space. Apologies beforehand for its length, I'll add an 'executive summary' at the top if I get time today.

Scientia vincere tenebras, no matter how much the supporters of the Portable Antiquities Scam may try to fog the issue ascribing to themselves superior 'knowledge' of  'The Complexities of Metal Detecting Policy and Practice'.  

Vignette: Heritage preservation fog lights for academic smokescreens