Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

Artefact Hunting Vandals Strike Historic Church Site in Britain

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Matthew Lockwood, ' Vandals strike historic church site ' BBC 21 September 2026.  Campaigners fighting to save a Grade II li...
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Thursday, 24 September 2026

Rather Optimistic Tekkies Disappointed by no-sale

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Two Suffolk artefact hunters will not be able to pay the landowner off just yet (Alice Cunningham,' Medieval gold ring fails to sell a...
Friday, 28 August 2026

The Lesson of Torchesk

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                     2026 screenshot (after Sikorski)       Jerzy Sikorski reports that at the EAA meeting in Athens, in a paper (read by Je...

Archaeological Looting in the Republic of Bashkortostan

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A recent study (Gizzatov, Tuzbekov and Akhatov 2025) reveals that over 12% of recorded archaeological sites in the Republic of Bashkortostan...
Thursday, 27 August 2026

Ukrainian Archaeologist: "The Situation of the Archaeological Heritage in Eastern Ukraine is Catastrophic"

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Serhiy Telizhenko, Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Candidate of Histori...

Bronze Age Treasure of Villena Stolen from Archaeological Museum

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The Treasure of Villena, one of the most important Bronze Age goldsmithing ensembles in Europe, was stolen in the early hours of this morni...
Friday, 14 August 2026

New Study Revealed Looting Continuing in Syria

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Jesse Casana et al, Remote Sensing-Based Analysis of Archaeological Site Damage in Syria: Revisiting a Post-War Landscape , Heritage (2026)....
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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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