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You may have heard loud complaints lately from detectorists about items going missing from official storage and severe delays in processing finds. As a result there have been a lot of arrogant “I’m not reporting anything any more” stuff and lots of undignified reassurances from PAS that they’ll try to do better.
It’s a pretty unsavoury image considering so much doesn’t get reported already. But on the subject of unsavoury:
The Portable Antiquities Scheme fundraising scheme has been running for 8 years. 31 supporters have now donated £1278. As for the tens of thousands of others: zilch ever. Heroic or what?
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