Rescue News 109
Rescue News 109 was published in Spring 2010
and included the articles below.View the contents of other volumes of Rescue News
here.
For 5 years practitioners and academics have been gathering in Brighton to contribute to Heritage Impact, a symposium series dedicated to the study of the socio-economic impact of heritage. This year is no exception and on 22 and 23 April 2010, the University of Brighton Business School, the CUBIST Research Group and the Cultural Informatics Research Group, under the aegis of the European Commission, will host Heritage Impact 2010.
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As the national press was trumpeting the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard, the November/December2009 issue of British Archaeology was also reporting the financial problems the Royal Cornwall Museum encountered following its successful acquisition of an exceptional hoard of Bronze Age copper-alloy axes found in 2005. The finder and landowner shared a reward of £8,500, raised mainly by a donation from a charitable trust. The Royal Cornwall Museum meanwhile suffered funding
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On 18th November English Heritage organised a seminar at Burlington House on ‘Combating Nighthawking: Reducing the threat from illicit metal detecting’. The main aim was to report on various measures taken to follow up the suggestions of the ‘Nighthawking report’ and to give a voice to interested parties, particularly those who did not speak at the report launch in February 2009 (see RN 106).
The day was chaired by Professor Barry
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Having spent a lot of time recording metal-detected objects in the 20 years before the arrival of the PAS I have a particular set of biases in the ongoing relationship between professional archaeologists and metal detector users. Some of my best friends are detector users, though many more are archaeologists…..
I remain certain agriculture is doing far more damage to archaeological sites than metal detecting. There is plenty of evidence for
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This article, prompted by recent discoveries both in England and Scotland, is a synopsis of the current legislation is in Scotland and a personal view of some of the challenges. Suggesting what may help to improve the current situation to try to deal with the rogue detectorists and reward those who are doing a sterling job reporting and recording their finds.
I use the term treasure hunting as I believe it
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The most important hoard of Iron Age gold yet unearthed in Scotland, an astonishing cache of Iron Age gold necklaces was unearthed in a field near Stirling in September by a would-be treasure-hunter trying out his first metal detector.
The hoard is of European significance, revealing the wealth and cosmopolitan connections of those living in the area between 300 and 100 BC.
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The Treasure Valuation Committee made up of independent advisors meeting at the British Museum in November 2009. After analyzing a very large amount of information in order to arrive at a fair market price, they deemed the Treasure to be worth £3.285million.
This sum once raised will be split equally between the finder, Terry Herbert, and the landowner, Fred Johnson. The landowner, the finder and the two museums which hope to
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Rescue has now been told that the initial campaign to raise £200,000 has been successful – many congratulations to the campaigners – see http://www.romancircus.org/2010/03/01/thank-you-appeal-reaches-its-200000-target/
Destination Colchester and Colchester Archaeology Trust are together trying to raise funds to buy the Sergeants’ Mess building and garden of Abbey Fields from developers Taylor Wimpey to save a unique site from redevelopment and help preserve Colchester’s town’s unique heritage.
Deadline now February 2010
The Appeal
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Rescue is backing a campaign led by NOGOE – No to Greenwich Olympic Equestrian Events to ensure that The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) fully considers the archaeological implications of the planned Olympic Equestrian events in Greenwich Park.
Greenwich Park is an area of intense archaeological interest, within the World Heritage Site.
A Roman temple complex was discovered in 1902 on a mound in the Park by the then
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