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Rhiannon
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a question about personal collections
Aug 03, 2005, 11:52
Hello Cheshireman. Perhaps this is a silly question because who knows what goes on behind closed doors - but in your experience, what percentage of people with personal collections do you think label all their finds with the grid reference or have this information in a database somewhere?

If this crucial information is not lost then inferences can be made about the finds. Maybe when that collector is dead, then his collection gets passed onto another collector or a museum. Then it still 'means' something beyond a collection of time-travelling articles / beautiful handmade things. The information's there for the future, even if it's not Handed Over to the Authorities straight away (what's a human lifetime in comparison to the age of an axehead anyway).

Maybe this isn't the solution that would please everybody. But how many 'finders' are concientious in this way? Can you give us a guess?

(One'd think it would be useful to know where you'd got something so you could go again, if for no other reason. Unless you'd rather not write it down because you shouldn't have been there of course).
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