The problem of selling archaeological material | |||||
Re: Agreed, and going beyond -- CoinCoin | Post Reply | Edit | Forum | Where am I? |
I know it sounds silly if a site has yielded 500,000 near-identical beads that none can be sold to help fund digs and museums and satisfy collector's cravings. But that just isn't permitted. Many years ago a small museum in the UK neatly packaged and sold some of the large hoard of identical brass nails from a Roman site to do exactly that but that is now definitely frowned on. Anal retention? No, just our attempt to keep the trade in archaeological materials at a minimum and also preserve a collection's integrity.