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Viking Archaeology Blog
Registration is now open for the ‘Portable Antiquities: Archaeology, Collecting, Metal Detecting’ conference on 13th and 14th March 2010. This event is co-organised by the CBA and Newcastle University’s International Centre for Cult...
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Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Blog
Registration is now open for the ‘Portable Antiquities: Archaeology, Collecting, Metal Detecting’ conference on 13th and 14th March 2010. This event is co-organised by the CBA and Newcastle University’s International Centre for Cult...
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Archaeology in Europe
Registration is now open for the ‘Portable Antiquities: Archaeology, Collecting, Metal Detecting’ conference on 13th and 14th March 2010. This event is co-organised by the CBA and Newcastle University’s International Centre for Cult...
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Illicit Cultural Property
Iraqi police announced today the seizure of 39 antiquities discovered hidden near a shrine outside Nasiriyah in Southern Iraq.  These included clay tablets and statues, some of which may date from the 4,000 year-old Sumerian civili...
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Archaeology in Europe
The CBA is teaming up with Newcastle University’s International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies to organise and host a major conference titled Portable Antiquities: Archaeology, Collecting, Metal Detecting. This will take p...
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Looting Matters
It looks as if the UK's Portable Antiquities Scheme was frequently cited at last week's review of Article II of the MOU with Italy. Peter Tompa, the spokesperson for the numismatic trade bodies the IAPN and the PNG, "advocated" tha...
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Looting Matters
Those who think that the Portable Antiquities Scheme is the solution to looting in the UK should read today's Daily Telegraph ("Treasure hunters raid historic sites", October 5, 2009). While the PAS does good work in recording (some...
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Looting Matters
Sam Moorhead of the Portable Antiquities Scheme based at the British Museum has been commenting on the number of new coins emerging from East Anglia: "The old theory was that there was relatively little currency circulating in East ...
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Illicit Cultural Property
That's the gist of Maev Kennedy's extended piece on the U.K.'s Portable Antiquities Scheme in today's Guardian:  As the money that funded an unprecedented explosion of professional archaeology during the economic boom years runs ...
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Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Blog
In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in archaeological research has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC). There are now thousands mo...
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Viking Archaeology Blog
In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in archaeological research has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC). There are now thousands mo...
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Archaeology in Europe
In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in archaeological research has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC). There are now thousands mo...
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Anglo-Saxon Archaeology Blog
In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (...
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Looting Matters
The Roman bronze horse and rider from Cambridgeshire has been attracting further observations. Paul Barford talked about this specific piece back in November 2008 as it featured on the cover of the Review of the Portable Antiquities...
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Looting Matters
The recently published "Nighthawking" survey has been attracting some comment and defence. (We should note that the client was English Heritage not the Portable Antiquities Scheme.)It is interesting to read the section on Icklingham...
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Looting Matters
The Milken Institute's Financial Innovation Lab Report on Financial Innovations for Developing Archaeological Discovery and Conservation (December 2008) [pdf: registration required] has a section on the UK Portable Antiquities Schem...
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Looting Matters
The annual report (2007) on finds of 'Treasure' in the UK will be published later today; "Treasure hunters boost gold finds", BBC News November 19, 2008. Apparently:In total, the number of finds containing gold and silver which were...
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Looting Matters
Roger Bland of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) has published a hard-hitting review article of James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? ("What's yours is mine"), in the London Review of Books (November 6, 2008). Bland shows that Cuno h...
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Looting Matters
Paul Barford has discussed the issue of portable antiquities (including coins) being sold on eBay. Christopher Chippindale and I discussed this market back in 2001, "On-line auctions: a new venue for the antiquities market"....
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Viking Archaeology Blog
In the last fifteen years the role of metal-detected objects in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian England has greatly increased through reporting to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and the Early Medieval Corpus (...
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