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19th December 2006, 08:36 PM
Im with troll on this one - schools are the way to go! My mum and sister are both teachers and the kids love the unstrat pottery and tile thats been collected off spoil heaps. The fact that they get to handle material hundreds or thousands of years old is majical for them and it makes a dam fine addition to the average nature table! And just because its rubbish from an acedemic point of view doesnt mean people arent interested. They could even consider selling it in the gift shop - it worked for the berlin wall and the old cardiff arms park.
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20th December 2006, 02:00 PM
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It worked for Wheeler at Maiden Castle, when he sold off loads of hoarded slingstones found in pits behind the ramparts - the fact that inexhaustable supplies of such stones were available from Chesil Beach nearby meant that there was no chance of his stock running out, although provenance was a bit dodgy.
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20th December 2006, 03:05 PM
Dont forget Richmond and the Inchtuthil nails. I believe that many were sold off as sets (one of each size), some of which occasionally crop up on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-ROMAN-NAILS_W0QQ...dZViewItem
D. Vader
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WSIs do not concern me, Curator. I want that site, not excuses
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1st January 2007, 03:53 PM
Hmmmm....not entirely happy with selling it off! Seems to me that we actively sell archaeology off to developers with the public firmly held at arms length whilst we do so.....
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