17th February 2013, 10:35 AM
Quote:I think museums should be prepared to take material that they think is worth preserving, and should perhaps be open to persuasion by professionals seeking to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities where there is borderline material.
as we have seen the wiltshire museum though it wise to prepare for 200 boxes-just what level should they be prepaired to.
Quote:professionals seeking to fulfill their legal and moral responsibilities where there is borderline material.
As far as I understand it the material apart from treasure starts off as the property of the landowner. That a brief appears to coerce the landowner to hand over that material I dont see as legal. I find it quite incredible the collective rip off of the landowner or more importantly the lack of responibility that it engenders in the landowners particularly the public sector ones.
As to my morals if I could get more for the material from a different source, any source I should take it. The system we seem to be trying to fight for seems to allow us to get away with dumping it at a museum and doing nothing more with the material we archaeologists have created
Reason: your past is my past