S2e5: Law and Order: Special Objects Unit

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS Series 2 Episode 5: Law and Order: Special Objects Unit… Episode 5 of our continuing journey through Shakespeare’s ‘7 Ages of Man’ [and Women!] brings us to the Justice, and where better to discuss a few objects linked to crime and (a lot of) punishment! We’ll also be taking the opportunity to take a little look at the ethics of antiquities collecting. Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) are joined by a very special guest Dr Adam Daubney. Ex-FLO in Lincolnshire, and now independent finds specialist extraordinaire, Adam has written extensively on the ethics of portable antiquities. He also tells us the story of a very interesting hoard of Spanish doubloons Finds mentioned week: Devon Constabulary police button: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1026734# Toy handcuffs: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/975903# Romano-British shackles: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/246137# Hoard of Spanish-American escudos (Doubloons!) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/386995 Bibliography: Daubney, A., 2017. Floating culture: the unrecorded antiquities of England and Wales. International Journal of Heritage Studies 1–15. Grove, L., Daubney, A., Booth, A., 2018. Identifying sites at risk from illicit metal detecting. International Journal of Heritage Studies 24, 1038–1052. Wiseman, R., Neil, B., Mazzilli, F. Extreme Justice: Decapitations and Prone Burials in Three Late Roman Cemeteries at Knobb’s Farm, Cambridgeshire. Britannia 1–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X21000064 (music credit: Lukrembo – Bread)

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS Series 2 Episode 4: Military Matters! Episode 4 of our continuing journey through Shakespeare’s ‘7 Ages of Man’ [and Women!] brings us to the soldier, and so we’re turning to all things martial and military in this episode. Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk about military artefacts and weapons on the PAS database, and discuss THAT Roman cavalry helmet with our very special guest Dr Mike Bishop. Mike has both figuratively and literally written the book on Roman Military Equipment (you can access his extensive bibliography on his website: https://www.mcbishop.co.uk/writing/), and it was a pleasure to talk to him! Finds mentioned week: Bronze Age Spearhead: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1027365 Eggleston Bronze Age hoard: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/969299 Crosby Garett Helmet: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/404767 Bibliography: Anderson, K., 2011. Slashing and thrusting with Late Bronze Age spears: analysis and experiment. Antiquity 85, 599–612. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00067983 Bishop, M.C., Coulston, J.C., 2009. Roman military equipment: from the Punic Wars to the fall of Rome. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Breeze, D.J., Bishop, M.C., 2013. The Crosby Garrett Helmet. Armatura Press, for Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery. Peltonen, M., 2003. ‘Civilized with death’: Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England, in: Early Modern Civil Discourses. Springer, pp. 51–67. (available here: https://www.shakespeare4alltime.com/uploads/4/1/8/1/4181397/the_duel_in_elizabeths_reign_-_civilized_with_death.pdf) Tracey, J., 2012. New Evidence for Iron Age Burial and Propitiation Practices in Southern Britain. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31, 367–379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.2012.00393.x (music credit: Lukrembo – Bread)

Cyprus on Monday put on display artifacts — some of them thousands of years old — that were returned after a Turkish art dealer looted them from the ethnically divided island nation decades ago.Aydin Dikmen took the artifacts from the country’s breakaway north in the years after Cyprus’ split in 1974, when Turkey invaded following a coup mounted by supporters of union with Greece. The antiquities were kept in Germany after authorities there seized them in 1997, and protracted legal battles secured their repatriation in three batches, the last one this year.Addressing the unveiling ceremony at Cyprus’ archaeological museum, President Nikos Christodoulides said the destruction of a country’s cultural heritage as evidenced in recent conflicts becomes a “deliberate campaign of cultural and religious cleansing that aims to eliminate identity.”Among the 60 most recently returned artifacts put on display include jewelry from the Chalcolithic Period between 3500-1500 B.C. and Bronze Age bird-shaped idols.Antiquities that Dikmen also looted but were returned years ago include 1,500-year-old mosaics of Saints Luke, Mark, Matthew and James. They are among the few examples of early Christian works to survive the Iconoclastic period in the 8th and 9th centuries when most such works were destroyed.Cyprus’ authorities and the country’s Orthodox Church for decades have been hunting for the island’s looted antiquities and centuries-old relics from as many as 500 churches in open auctions and on the black market.The museum’s antiquities curator, Eftychia Zachariou, told the ceremony that Cyprus in recent years has benefited from a shift in thinking among authorities in many countries who now opt to repatriate antiquities of dubious provenance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In which Brian & Theo discuss the Cambodian Genocide, the smuggling of antiquities, and the criminal accusations against famed art dealer Douglas Latchford who died in 2019 before standing trial for smuggling, conspiracy, and wire fraud.Content Warning: In this episode we discuss genocide, war, and describe cases of extreme violence in some detail.