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| chosi |
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  Registered Member #4 Joined: Mon Apr 23 2007, 07:55Posts: 156 | Today's Washington Post had an article about treasure hunters in Britain. The gist of it was that Great Britain values treasure hunters, and allows/encourages them to find historical artifacts. The finders turn the artifacts over to museums who catalog them and either return them to the finder, or keep them and pay the finders market value for what they're worth. When's America gonna catch up? - Chosi | ||
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| Guntherhess |
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 Registered Member #83 Joined: Thu May 01 2008, 09:32Posts: 48 | When's America gonna catch up? Never. Europe is progressive the US is repressive :) They will eventually just ban all metal detecting (already the case in many places). http://www.antiquemedicines.com/bottles.htm | ||
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| Guntherhess |
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| Registered Member #83 Joined: Thu May 01 2008, 09:32Posts: 48 | http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS/711180323 just the start... paste link in browser if if hot link doesnt work [ Edited Wed Jun 10 2009, 12:50 ] http://www.antiquemedicines.com/bottles.htm | ||
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| andy g. |
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  Registered Member #9 Joined: Thu Apr 26 2007, 10:46Posts: 113 | Mike -- I would love if the United States adopted that approach. Not sure it is going to happen for a host of reasons:
Matt -- could not get the link to work but I figure that was the one about the limits on privy digging in Oregon, right? Seems a bit nonsensical but, in reality, Alexandria, Williamsburg, Harper's Ferry & other jurisdictions have similar restrictions. The one in Alexandria is triggered off of the site improvement plans but generally applies to any excavation. That is why, it is my understanding, any bottle digging in Alexandria occurs after the archaeologist have white-washed the site and/or by following the dump trucks to pick up the bottles where they unload the dirt. andy g. As a wise, old privydigger once told me: May your shovel be light and may you find many colored pontils. | ||
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| Guntherhess |
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| Registered Member #83 Joined: Thu May 01 2008, 09:32Posts: 48 | sorry, they have hot linking disabled so you have to cut and paste the URL into your browser if you want to read it. It talks about the oregonian law. basically you cant dig more than 10 bottles at a site or you are breaking the law. Archaeological sites: What the law says A person may not knowingly and intentionally excavate, injure, destroy or alter an archaeological site or object on public or private lands without first obtaining an archaeological permit, according to a series of state laws. The one pertaining to private lands is Oregon Administrative Rule 736-051-0090. On private or public non-federal lands, an official archaeological site is defined when it has 10 or more artifacts that are 75 years or older located in a concentrated geographic area, said Susan Lynn White, Oregon assistant state archaeologist. Violation of these laws is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail, White said. “Removal of human remains is a Class C Felony,” she adds. “The state police can be contacted and the site shut down.” Oregon law also prohibits a person from selling, purchasing, trading, bartering or exchanging an artifact that has been removed from an archaeological site on public, non-federal land or obtained from private land without the written permission http://www.antiquemedicines.com/bottles.htm | ||
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| ca_drm1n |
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  Registered Member #1 Joined: Thu Apr 12 2007, 09:24Posts: 339 | Matt, I fixed the link in your post... linking does indeed work from the forums here, the format of the original one was incorrect. - Al | ||
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