Sunday reverie: “Coy bumbarrels, twenty in a drove,

Flit down the hedgerows in the frozen plain
And hang on little twigs and start again.” (John Clare)

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Imagine if a Government somewhere allowed an army of forty thousand mercenaries to hunt them down, every one.

And mostly keep shtum!

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More Heritage Journal views on artefact collecting

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