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OLD MORT’S REVIEW OF THE DECADE

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OLD MORT’S ALMANACK FOR 2020

[Lead Image Public Domain via Wikipaedia] Every year since 2015 thePipeLine has broken the omerta which binds the most senior practitioners of...
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BITTER #METOO ROW OVERSHADOWS SAA’s 84th ANNUAL MEETING

Lead image courtesy of Dr Suzie Thomas The annual meeting of the prestigious Society of American Archaeology [SAA] is one of the...

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ILLICIT SALVAGE
The BIG READ: British Government Accused of Five Decades of Failure to Protect HMS Prince of Wales from Looters

Lead Image: HMS Prince of Wales in 1941. [Official US Navy Photograph Public Domain...
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BRITISH MUSEUM
Saving/Losing* our/their* Pathenon/Elgin* Marbles

*Delete as Applicable Detail from “the Parthenon from the East” by Themistocles von Eckenbrecher...
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HERITAGE CRIME
CONCERN AS METAL DETECTING RALLIES ADVERTISED CLOSE TO ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE & MULTI-PERIOD SITE IN SHROPSHIRE

[Lead Image: thePipeLine] Concern is growing among archaeologists that the organisers of commercial metal...
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The King’s Speech and Archaeology [A short story]

Comedian and writer Alexei Sayle opened his set at the Secret Policeman’s Ball by...
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL ETHICS
THAT WOULD [NOT] BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER: the Strange Case of the Priest, the Archaeologist and the Illegal Burial

[Lead Image: Archaeosoup] The Cambridge educated medievalist Montague Rhodes [M.R.] James had a famous...
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HISTORIC ENGLAND
FEARS OLD OSWESTRY HILLFORT DECISION BY SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL PUTS EVERY HISTORIC SITE IN ENGLAND AT RISK

Lead Image: The view from Old Oswestry Hillfort towards the town of Oswestry. The...
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BATTLEFIELD LOOTING
THE MARITIME OBSERVATORY: CRANE BARGE HAD FIVE MONTHS AND SIX VISITS TO LOOT HMS PRINCE OF WALES

Lead Image: HMS Prince of Wales [Official US Navy Photograph Public Domain via US...
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AVIATION ARCHAEOLOGY
Home Office Plan for Dambusters Base RAF Scampton Remains Dogged by Archaeological Controversy

Lead Image: thePipeLine Ahead of a Judicial Review sought by the local authority into...
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COMMERCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY
CBA ANNOUNCES EPIC NEW ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES

Concept art for the Council for British Archaeology’s epic new drama.[Lead Image: thePipeLine] Following...
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TREASURE ACT AMENDMENT: GAMECHANGER OR GAME OVER FOR REGULATING METAL DETECTING?

[Lead Image: thePipeLine] A canny application of Nudge Theory to save important archaeological artefacts...
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HMS GLOUCESTER 1682
EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Fried Shipwreck? The Real Story of the Discovery of HMS Gloucester, “Norfolk’s Mary Rose”

Lead Image: thePipeLine By Andy Brockman Billed by the University of East Anglia as...
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GRAHAM HANCOCK
TV REVIEW: Apocalypse No! Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse” [NETFLIX]

Lead Image: Public Domain via thePipeLine by Andy Brockman Mr Hancock has demeaned his...
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HERITAGE CRIME
TV REVIEW: Mackenzie Crook’s “Detectorists” 2022 Christmas Special [BBC1]

[Lead Image: thePipeLine] Mackenzie Crook channels William Blake and John le Carré in “detectorists”...
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HERITAGE CRIME
Arrest in Preston Museum Missing Treasure Investigation

[Lead Image: thePipeLine] In what appears to be a breakthrough in the investigation into...
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HERITAGE CRIME
POLICE PROBE ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE OF TREASURE FINDS FROM LANCASHIRE MUSEUM

[Lead Image: thePipeLine] Lancashire Police are investigating a number of cases of artefacts reported...
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GOODWIN SANDS
CAMPAIGNERS CELEBRATE AS PORT OF DOVER U-TURNS ON GOODWIN SANDS DREDGING PLAN

Campaigners gathered outside the headquarters of the Port of Dover on Remembrance Day 2016.[Courtesy...
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ARCHAEOLOGY MISSING AS ENVIRO GROUPS PROMISE ACTION OVER KWARTENG DEREGULATION

[Header: thePipeLine] Leadership bodies in UK archaeology appears silent as the evidence increases that...
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ARCHAEOLOGY PAY & CONDITIONS
BRUTAL REPORT FROM BAJR DESCRIBES ARCHAEOLOGY AS A SECTOR DEMORALISED AND IN DECLINE

Header: The loneliness of a commercial archaeologist. Oxford Archaeology at the Teardrop site at...
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CHARLES III KING AND ARCHAEOLOGIST?

Header: History as a background. The then Prince of Wales deputising for the Queen...

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OLD MORT’S REVIEW OF THE DECADE

OLD MORT’S ALMANACK FOR 2020

BITTER #METOO ROW OVERSHADOWS SAA’s 84th ANNUAL MEETING

Latest News

The BIG READ: British Government Accused of Five Decades of Failure to Protect HMS Prince of Wales from Looters

Saving/Losing* our/their* Pathenon/Elgin* Marbles

CONCERN AS METAL DETECTING RALLIES ADVERTISED CLOSE TO ARBOR LOW STONE CIRCLE & MULTI-PERIOD SITE IN SHROPSHIRE

The King’s Speech and Archaeology [A short story]

THAT WOULD [NOT] BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER: the Strange Case of the Priest, the Archaeologist and the Illegal Burial

FEARS OLD OSWESTRY HILLFORT DECISION BY SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL PUTS EVERY HISTORIC SITE IN ENGLAND AT RISK

THE MARITIME OBSERVATORY: CRANE BARGE HAD FIVE MONTHS AND SIX VISITS TO LOOT HMS PRINCE OF WALES

Home Office Plan for Dambusters Base RAF Scampton Remains Dogged by Archaeological Controversy

CBA ANNOUNCES EPIC NEW ARCHAEOLOGY SERIES

TREASURE ACT AMENDMENT: GAMECHANGER OR GAME OVER FOR REGULATING METAL DETECTING?

EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Fried Shipwreck? The Real Story of the Discovery of HMS Gloucester, “Norfolk’s Mary Rose”

TV REVIEW: Apocalypse No! Graham Hancock’s “Ancient Apocalypse” [NETFLIX]

TV REVIEW: Mackenzie Crook’s “Detectorists” 2022 Christmas Special [BBC1]

Arrest in Preston Museum Missing Treasure Investigation

POLICE PROBE ALLEGED DISAPPEARANCE OF TREASURE FINDS FROM LANCASHIRE MUSEUM

CAMPAIGNERS CELEBRATE AS PORT OF DOVER U-TURNS ON GOODWIN SANDS DREDGING PLAN

BEN HOUCHEN, DYNAMITE DORRIES & THE DORMAN LONG TOWER- A Cautionary Tale

ARCHAEOLOGY MISSING AS ENVIRO GROUPS PROMISE ACTION OVER KWARTENG DEREGULATION

BRUTAL REPORT FROM BAJR DESCRIBES ARCHAEOLOGY AS A SECTOR DEMORALISED AND IN DECLINE

CHARLES III KING AND ARCHAEOLOGIST?