Artefacts deriving from mortuary contexts form a unique group among the vast numbers of antiquities sold on the market each year. In many cases their sale is legal. But is it ethical, especially when lives (both present and former ones) are at stake? Can dealers and buyers be sure that an object is from anContinue reading “Buying grave goods: have we reached the moral limits of the market?”
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Grave Finds
Every year, hundreds of archaeological objects are found by metal detectorists that potentially derive from graves. Owing to the general lack of protection given to grave goods in England, some end up in private collections or on the antiquities trade. I recently completed some research into this, which has just been published as an HistoricContinue reading “Grave Finds”
ADAM DAUBNEY 