21st July 2016, 04:47 PM
BAJR Wrote:I have to report them to the Crown and they are disposed to museums. ( or skip if they are disclaimed)
I am worried ... I know the TT website says we can do with it as we wish ... but are you sure this is firm ground? Why, if the Crown has not claimed the Scottish material, do we acquire ownership of the material to enable disposal? I am NOT a practitioner of Scots law but by instinct I would envisage it as highly likely that ownership, once disclaimed by the Crown, would revert to the landowner ... so maybe not even your client if they only have an option on the ground. Do you know if the TT advice is based on specific legal guidance ... or is it more a statement that it's our problem once they disclaim!
Quick ... to that skip ... for those unfamiliar, I've seen decent Scottish urban medieval assemblages disclaimed ... and Roman material recovered from native sites ... so we're not talking 19th century bricks & bottles here ...