Two men accused of trying to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins to undercover police

From today's Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...lo-saxon-coins-viking-hoard-undercover-police

 

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I would like to read that more people do the right thing than the wrong thing. But that wouldn't be news, would it?

 

Here you go. In 2021, PAS recorded the one millionth archaeological find properly reported by the British public.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...llionth-archaeological-find-by-british-public

 

The concept of any objects being "culturally important" is utter nonsense. It is not as if the culture that produced these objects is still around. It is an artificial legal construct without logic or rationality and came out of the criticism of the so called theft from the Baghdad museum during the second gulf war and had taken on a bizarre life of its own. Theft is another story but that any country existing today could make a claim for objects made thousands of years ago and somehow "own" cultural artifacts of a culture that has not existed for a thousand years is just plain silly. It as if the present Italian government could somehow could claim to be the successor of an empire that was gone 1700 or so years ago - as if it is the successor to that empire. The idea is absurd.