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Friday 7 February 2020
Metal Detectorist's House Raided
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- 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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1 comment:
In Israel, “It is important for the public to know that any excavation at an antiquities site or discovery of antiques, even in private grounds, requires immediate reporting to the Antiquities Authority”
But in Britain yer don't have to if it's not gold, and yer free to sell it. And if it IS gold they pay yer. Either way, yer win. I love this obby. Capital Gains, wots that?
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