Scotland has a similar system to Denmark - although technically it is the Crown rather than the state

Paisley Abbey....

In England, the finds go to the finder/landowner. So they don't go to a museum unless voluntarily donated (see below) or are purchased by the museum from the finder;

bsky.app/profile/tess...

Ooft

"Found items from anywhere in Scotland [...] which are not otherwise owned and for which there is not a demonstrable heir (bona vacantia) are the property of the Crown at Scots common law. Portable antiquities form a subset of bona
vacantia"

treasuretrovescotland.co.uk/documents/co...

It's always interesting (and frustrating) that we have differing laws across the United Kingdom which mean vastly different approaches to finds and what is done with them

There's a range of different markers across our sites; some are just plain concrete markers, others are incised like at Edin's Hall and then there's also some fantastic ones with metal plates like this one at Dunadd

And a couple of photos from my last visit to the site, to recover an Iron Age whetstone that had been discovered in the niche by the entrance.

Now published in History of the Berwickshire Naturalists www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Some lovely LiDAR for it on the NLS website maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/...

Lots of modern coins! This is to remove the modern deposits so a core can be taken down the shaft for analysis

Much like the World Service this morning where Israelis "reported" torture whereas Palestinians "alleged" torture

Buster Bluth is holding the sieve?

Our new exhibition at the castle tells the story of the hillfort better and has some of the artefacts from Alcock's excavation of Alt Clut on display for the first time at the site

www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news/2528091...

I guess at least they didn't use paint