22nd September 2010, 11:28 AM
Don?t read this
You looking for an historians opinion or an archaeologists?
You mean Metal Detecting Gallery. In the museum shop they could probably do a roaring trade in metal detectors. They can add descriptions to a lot of their displayed items including how much it got at auction, state the type of detector used, depth below the ho so rough ground, lots of potential grubby metal detecting magazine sales. Set up a communittr metal detecting club maybe look for sponsorship from auction houses, Shirley this could be the start of a thriving export education business attracting visitors from around the world?
Presumably they will use the PAS description written by the Curator of the Romano-British collections and Head of Roman Britain and Medieval Europe.
http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/404767
This curator does not seem to have any problem authenticating objects and even likes to cite other publications to justify the authentication. Looks really professional although I cant find a standard and guidance on it form ify although they do them on phonsic archaeologists and archaeological geophysics (which is different to normal geophysics). This curator must have some previous experience in this line of work
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/time/roman/art29899
(cant find it on the PAS database?)
anyway cant sit here starting to go into the unfathomable rant as hosty is sick and tired of having to monitor my posts and besides I have to write a scheme of works for a little old ladies 15m2 extension. First find a so called curator who is not on holiday, at a very important meeting or apparently on a site visit, so that I can find out whether the wording of the condition intended a full excavation strategy or something which is now called a monitoring, then do a site visit, pay for a site location map, write a description of the location, make sure that all the planning application numbers and conditions are lergit, visit the archives, review the archaeological and historical background (try and work out why this site got a condition when the next door supermarket did not get any) , write it all in a scheme, including my insurance details, provide a full and acceptable, peer reviewed and published list of associated specialist (might include this BM curator hay if not too busy..), produce a risk assessment and then wait for the ?curators? (who don?t work at a museum) to reject it on the grounds of typos, I am not an RO or if they are really sharp get pulled up because I have used the words watching brief somewhere and get told that I have to include a caveat that if I find anything that I must sell my house and me and family has to pay for the excavation and specialist analysis and conservation as the landowner wont and then to cap all that, insist that all the finds and the archive should be donated to the appropriate museum who will then charge me to keep what ever observations and artefacts,- that I have retrieved based on a post graduate level education in archaeology and years of experience being exploited by units where the directors all had gold plated council pensions and I did not, -in a dark place for a few years until the so called museum (run by people who appear to be in some form of entertainment industry for the severally moronic) go bust or lose everything which they keep in something called a store. And then I have to give the ?curators? a start date so that they can check that whilst in the wilds of a construction site that I don?t bring archaeology into disrepute (again).
And that?s before I am allowed to touch a bit of archaeology from the site and stand there and have to answer the inevitable question of whats the best thing that I have ever found whilst staring across the property boundary at a the Viking burial mound (the one with a lot of active moles) that is being preserved in situ because somebody in the futures curiosity is more important than mine.
How does it work again a short sharp glichy beep is probably iron and the top pan romanobritish medieval probably prehistoric curator of the whole world who has got these things into museums and top dollar before will identify everything that I find for free, even if I say I found it somewhere when I might have found it somewhere else particularly if rough ground is implicated. Lead on muckduff.
Your not real curators are you, why don?t ?..dam blinking unfathomable ranting
Quote:[SIZE=3]Something has no historic value because it has no exact provenance ? Rubbish. Every museum in Britain has artefacts on display and in storage that don't have exact provenance. If they're historically valueless why do they have them ?[/SIZE]
You looking for an historians opinion or an archaeologists?
Quote:[SIZE=3]I just hope Tullie house does get it, can be the star attraction in their new Roman Gallery![/SIZE]
You mean Metal Detecting Gallery. In the museum shop they could probably do a roaring trade in metal detectors. They can add descriptions to a lot of their displayed items including how much it got at auction, state the type of detector used, depth below the ho so rough ground, lots of potential grubby metal detecting magazine sales. Set up a communittr metal detecting club maybe look for sponsorship from auction houses, Shirley this could be the start of a thriving export education business attracting visitors from around the world?
Presumably they will use the PAS description written by the Curator of the Romano-British collections and Head of Roman Britain and Medieval Europe.
http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/404767
This curator does not seem to have any problem authenticating objects and even likes to cite other publications to justify the authentication. Looks really professional although I cant find a standard and guidance on it form ify although they do them on phonsic archaeologists and archaeological geophysics (which is different to normal geophysics). This curator must have some previous experience in this line of work
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%26+heritage/time/roman/art29899
(cant find it on the PAS database?)
anyway cant sit here starting to go into the unfathomable rant as hosty is sick and tired of having to monitor my posts and besides I have to write a scheme of works for a little old ladies 15m2 extension. First find a so called curator who is not on holiday, at a very important meeting or apparently on a site visit, so that I can find out whether the wording of the condition intended a full excavation strategy or something which is now called a monitoring, then do a site visit, pay for a site location map, write a description of the location, make sure that all the planning application numbers and conditions are lergit, visit the archives, review the archaeological and historical background (try and work out why this site got a condition when the next door supermarket did not get any) , write it all in a scheme, including my insurance details, provide a full and acceptable, peer reviewed and published list of associated specialist (might include this BM curator hay if not too busy..), produce a risk assessment and then wait for the ?curators? (who don?t work at a museum) to reject it on the grounds of typos, I am not an RO or if they are really sharp get pulled up because I have used the words watching brief somewhere and get told that I have to include a caveat that if I find anything that I must sell my house and me and family has to pay for the excavation and specialist analysis and conservation as the landowner wont and then to cap all that, insist that all the finds and the archive should be donated to the appropriate museum who will then charge me to keep what ever observations and artefacts,- that I have retrieved based on a post graduate level education in archaeology and years of experience being exploited by units where the directors all had gold plated council pensions and I did not, -in a dark place for a few years until the so called museum (run by people who appear to be in some form of entertainment industry for the severally moronic) go bust or lose everything which they keep in something called a store. And then I have to give the ?curators? a start date so that they can check that whilst in the wilds of a construction site that I don?t bring archaeology into disrepute (again).
And that?s before I am allowed to touch a bit of archaeology from the site and stand there and have to answer the inevitable question of whats the best thing that I have ever found whilst staring across the property boundary at a the Viking burial mound (the one with a lot of active moles) that is being preserved in situ because somebody in the futures curiosity is more important than mine.
How does it work again a short sharp glichy beep is probably iron and the top pan romanobritish medieval probably prehistoric curator of the whole world who has got these things into museums and top dollar before will identify everything that I find for free, even if I say I found it somewhere when I might have found it somewhere else particularly if rough ground is implicated. Lead on muckduff.
Your not real curators are you, why don?t ?..dam blinking unfathomable ranting
Reason: your past is my past