The coins "date from 141 BC to 46 AD" so pre-conquest or very shortly afterwards, yet not important enough either to keep in the UK or keep together as an assemblage? What the **** is going on?

Yes - as I wrote in a separate post, an appropriate first step might be to outlaw detecting on all land in any kind of environmental stewardship

Someone thinking about mirror designs...?

We have them, but are they doing their jobs...? committees.parliament.uk/work/9312/wa...

(3) clear and consistent messaging to the media from PAS and FLOs, not just about the rules but also the importance of archaeological context and the risk of loss in that respect - which has been missing or garbled in most of the recent reporting.

(2) commissioning some case-studies on the real costs of dealing with these finds (including rewards/purchases, archaeological research, conservation and display), and making it clear how taxpayers and communities are paying to fund a private hobby...

Do they publish figures on how much museums have had to raise to acquire PAS finds? And/or is the heritage sector trying to collate them?

And he was probably right about Benson...

Lots of people have said something similar: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

I found this out only yesterday after reading @martynjb.bsky.social on O.G.S. Crawford and A.C. Benson!

They’ve already started…

Here's an image that I wasn't able to post earlier - this is the opening paragraph of the article

Typical Oxford attitude 😉

"... a world of turmoil, bitterness, betrayal, scheming, and distrust, with nations standing not as brothers, but with the hand on the trigger. Again we ask whether the significance of Armistice-day is really understood?" Pertinent comments from the Western Morning News in November ...er... 1923