Friday, 25 January 2019

Before the UK had the PAS - and Before Metal Detecting


In the 1950s the Council for British Archaeology launched a public finds recording campaign:




The top picture is Piltdown Man. If ever there was a warning about basing archaeological research on reports of finds made by amateurs, that's one....

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