Recent advice to colleagues from a well known detectorist: .
“It helps to mark the envelope ‘Numismatic Specimen’ rather than ‘roman coin’ thus helping to deflect the attention of prying eyes.”
.
.
__________________________________________
.
.
__________________________________________
The Heritage Journal 
3 comments
Comments feed for this article
16/07/2017 at 09:35
Paul Barford
Because you need an Export Licence to send a Roman coin out of the country. This misdescription is a common method of smuggling. What advice does the PAS give on this?
16/07/2017 at 09:36
Paul Barford
Hobby Lobby used it on those cuneiform tablets, they called them “tile samples” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/hobby-lobby-smuggled-thousands-of-ancient-artifacts-out-of-iraq/532743/
metal detectorists in UK no better than Iraqi looters.
16/07/2017 at 10:13
heritageaction
As you know, the vast majority of detectorists seem to have supported Brexit (no prizes for guessing that would happen!). Which means we’ll be outside the EU, innit…. and the EU is examining the provisions governing the import of artefacts from outside the EU….. Write your own punchline.
Incidentally, I do hope they look at the issue of hundreds of EU citizens returning with items from Britain’s grabfests.