28th February 2006, 12:42 PM
You can't force someone to professionally conserve and store an object they own - they can do what they want with it, including shoving it in a drawer and letting it fall to bits if they like. However, you can put something in a WSI that requires every single find to be drawn, photographed and described in detail if it is not to be deposited in a proper museum or archive, to ensure the appropriate information is placed in the public domain even if the artefact isn't. This usually puts people off when they are confronted with bags and bags of broken pot and CBM.