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Saturday, 9 January 2021
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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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- More Trash Quantifications Versus the Real World
- Rebuke from PAS FLO Reavill: Be Careful What You W...
- The MOB's Loot Arrives Back in Egypt
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Israeli Institution Steals Artefacts For Internati...
- More Dubious Dead Sea Scrolls
- Racist-Theory-Touting Theme Park Planned for Black...
- The Not-so-Hidden Racist Undertones of Ancient Ali...
- Stop the Steal and US Coin Collector Cognition
- UK Detectorists: Coronavirus only Affects Other Pe...
- Ripping up the UK Heritage with the Heritage Alliance
- Professor Michal Lewis Replies to UK Detectorist's...
- Boris's Britain Rejects European Regulations to Re...
- FLO Selling Antiques? Eh?
- Shame About the Freedom of Movement: UK Detectoris...
- UK Tekkie Reasoning
- Heritage Action on PAS Turnaround on Commercial Ra...
- UK Metal Detecting Rallies in the Times (1)
- The Times on Rallies (2)
- The Times on Rallies (3)
- Got Orl the Grid Refrences Here
- Lockdown Looting: Massive Hoard of Stolen Ukrainia...
- Don't Expect too much from the NCMD [UPDATE]
- Wooley and Wallis's Wonky Slab from Whiteparish
- Artefact Hunters and the Archaeology of WW1 in Wes...
- UK: Looting Suspended due to Covid
- And Maybe they'll Manage to Finish Operation Missi...
- And Maybe they'll Manage to Finish Operation Fanta...
- More on the "American Council for the Preservation...
- BBC Article Promotes Irresponsible Artefact Huntin...
- Less Dots Breaks a British Archaeologist's Heart, ...
- A Decade More of Looting in England and Wales (A P...
- Revised Artefact Erosion Counter: The Missing Numbers
- PAS Recording Figures for 2020
- American Council for the Preservation of Cultural ...
- US Congress About to Apply Banking Regulations to ...
- PAS Recording in 2020, Pre and Post- 23rd March
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Popular Posts
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
"We ask the question. Is Metal Detecting Ruining Archaeology?" ummm, yeah... duh. And it's not just the "nighthawks"...
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A chip on the shoulder: @graceygrumble 1 month ago (edited) Detectorists and 'amateur' historians have made incalculable contributi...
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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 press service of the Ukrainian Security S... -
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... -
A Mother Goddess figurine, dating back 9,000 years, discovered in the 1960s during excavat...
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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
4 comments:
Why are you upset about this? You should be delighted that loads of English detectorists will start to flock to conflict areas like Libya, Somalia, Mali, wherever. Just imagine, a bunch of 'gung-ho' detectorists arrive in Libya and starting searching away. Within a few hours one of the zillion local militias will find them, shoot most on the spot and burn the rest alive as infidel agents! Or just imprison them a la Barbary Pirates. Maybe you could secretly open a special Metal Detectorist travel agency sending people like that to places like that on round trip tours ("our motto: 12 hours to go, 12 years to come back"). You should stop being so righteously angry and start looking for silver linings...
I want them to STOP damaging sites, I don't want them to die.
The point I was using this to make however is that so-called "metal detecting" in the UK is exactly the same phenomenon as the looting that takes place in these other areas.
"local militias will find them, shoot most on the spot".
That'll come as a shock to them after 20 years in Britain being told they're heritage heroes!
Perhaps Let's go Digging or similar will be running a charity event clearing ordnance from former conflict areas? (usual finds agreement applies, any ordnance worth £2k or less to be retained by finder).
Perhaps we should support such a charitable cause and chip in a few bob towards a charry
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