Sussex Heritage Community
@heritagecommunity.bsky.social
Daryl Holter
Pinned
Guess what I've spent the morning doing??
TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down.
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting
TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down.
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting
Mind sets need to change on donating finds to Museums
1 x donated find or reduced cost artefact
Per county
Per year
So Sussex Museums on average have received 10 donated finds in 10 years
Why's that ?, Museums cant afford it, finders are giving less ?
Ultimately accessibility is reduced.
1 x donated find or reduced cost artefact
Per county
Per year
So Sussex Museums on average have received 10 donated finds in 10 years
Why's that ?, Museums cant afford it, finders are giving less ?
Ultimately accessibility is reduced.
Join PCSO Daryl Holter, #HeritageCrime Officer for Rother Police, for a free talk on protecting our local heritage.
📅 Monday 24th November
🕐 1:00pm – 2:30pm
📍 Bexhill Museum
We all share responsibility for preserving our past. From ancient landmarks to everyday surroundings, heritage shapes us.
📅 Monday 24th November
🕐 1:00pm – 2:30pm
📍 Bexhill Museum
We all share responsibility for preserving our past. From ancient landmarks to everyday surroundings, heritage shapes us.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Join PCSO Daryl Holter, #HeritageCrime Officer for Rother Police, for a free talk on protecting our local heritage.
📅 Monday 24th November
🕐 1:00pm – 2:30pm
📍 Bexhill Museum
We all share responsibility for preserving our past. From ancient landmarks to everyday surroundings, heritage shapes us.
📅 Monday 24th November
🕐 1:00pm – 2:30pm
📍 Bexhill Museum
We all share responsibility for preserving our past. From ancient landmarks to everyday surroundings, heritage shapes us.
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Today, I want to focus on donation of treasure finds to museums.
Note, these figures include those who have sold their finds to museums at a reduced rate, as well as donated them for free - there's no way of finding out how many of each.
1/6
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #Gold 🏺
Note, these figures include those who have sold their finds to museums at a reduced rate, as well as donated them for free - there's no way of finding out how many of each.
1/6
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #Gold 🏺
November 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Today, I want to focus on donation of treasure finds to museums.
Note, these figures include those who have sold their finds to museums at a reduced rate, as well as donated them for free - there's no way of finding out how many of each.
1/6
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #Gold 🏺
Note, these figures include those who have sold their finds to museums at a reduced rate, as well as donated them for free - there's no way of finding out how many of each.
1/6
#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #Gold 🏺
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
It's even worse than that... it's 4% of TREASURE finds. For the overall PAS finds we don't actuality have a figure...
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's even worse than that... it's 4% of TREASURE finds. For the overall PAS finds we don't actuality have a figure...
Mind sets need to change on donating finds to Museums
1 x donated find or reduced cost artefact
Per county
Per year
So Sussex Museums on average have received 10 donated finds in 10 years
Why's that ?, Museums cant afford it, finders are giving less ?
Ultimately accessibility is reduced.
1 x donated find or reduced cost artefact
Per county
Per year
So Sussex Museums on average have received 10 donated finds in 10 years
Why's that ?, Museums cant afford it, finders are giving less ?
Ultimately accessibility is reduced.
Guess what I've spent the morning doing??
TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down.
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting
TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down.
#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Mind sets need to change on donating finds to Museums
1 x donated find or reduced cost artefact
Per county
Per year
So Sussex Museums on average have received 10 donated finds in 10 years
Why's that ?, Museums cant afford it, finders are giving less ?
Ultimately accessibility is reduced.
1 x donated find or reduced cost artefact
Per county
Per year
So Sussex Museums on average have received 10 donated finds in 10 years
Why's that ?, Museums cant afford it, finders are giving less ?
Ultimately accessibility is reduced.
Five Sussex sites added to 2025 'heritage at risk' register
Historic England revealed its 2025 Heritage at Risk Register on November 6th
The sites have been added to the register this year because they are "at risk of neglect, decay, or inappropriate development."
share.google/a5ebg9XZPlQN...
Historic England revealed its 2025 Heritage at Risk Register on November 6th
The sites have been added to the register this year because they are "at risk of neglect, decay, or inappropriate development."
share.google/a5ebg9XZPlQN...
The five historic Sussex sites which are now at risk of falling into ruin
Five sites in Sussex have been added to an annual "heritage at risk" register compiled by Historic England
share.google
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Five Sussex sites added to 2025 'heritage at risk' register
Historic England revealed its 2025 Heritage at Risk Register on November 6th
The sites have been added to the register this year because they are "at risk of neglect, decay, or inappropriate development."
share.google/a5ebg9XZPlQN...
Historic England revealed its 2025 Heritage at Risk Register on November 6th
The sites have been added to the register this year because they are "at risk of neglect, decay, or inappropriate development."
share.google/a5ebg9XZPlQN...
4% of annual finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme were DONATED to Museums.... thats right 4%
📢One last time folks 4%📢
C'mon people, without Generosity, Donation, Giving, Legacy or Sharing how do we & our future generations have access to our shared heritage?
📢One last time folks 4%📢
C'mon people, without Generosity, Donation, Giving, Legacy or Sharing how do we & our future generations have access to our shared heritage?
OK. These are the new, updated, figures for 2023.
Utterly miserable reading -
"1,343 #treasure finds reported in 2023 (1,091 object cases and 252 coin cases). Of these cases:
❌️328 (24%) were acquired by museums (260 object cases, 68 coin cases)"❌️
1/3
#Archaeology 🏺
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Utterly miserable reading -
"1,343 #treasure finds reported in 2023 (1,091 object cases and 252 coin cases). Of these cases:
❌️328 (24%) were acquired by museums (260 object cases, 68 coin cases)"❌️
1/3
#Archaeology 🏺
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Reported Treasure Finds 2023 and 2024 Statistical Release
www.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
4% of annual finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme were DONATED to Museums.... thats right 4%
📢One last time folks 4%📢
C'mon people, without Generosity, Donation, Giving, Legacy or Sharing how do we & our future generations have access to our shared heritage?
📢One last time folks 4%📢
C'mon people, without Generosity, Donation, Giving, Legacy or Sharing how do we & our future generations have access to our shared heritage?
Clock statue damaged by town centre metal thieves stealing bronze plaques
A statue celebrating Staveley's industrial heritage was damaged when thieves broke into a town centre construction site.
#HeritageCrime #OpCrucible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A statue celebrating Staveley's industrial heritage was damaged when thieves broke into a town centre construction site.
#HeritageCrime #OpCrucible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Staveley clock statue damaged by town centre metal thieves - BBC News
A construction site forming part of the town's multimillion-pound regeneration was broken into.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Clock statue damaged by town centre metal thieves stealing bronze plaques
A statue celebrating Staveley's industrial heritage was damaged when thieves broke into a town centre construction site.
#HeritageCrime #OpCrucible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A statue celebrating Staveley's industrial heritage was damaged when thieves broke into a town centre construction site.
#HeritageCrime #OpCrucible
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Utterly shameful
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser - BBC News
Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum has brought the hoard which includes a 2,000-year-old horse brooch.
share.google
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Utterly shameful
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
"threat of a public sale loomed"
WE shouldn't have to BUY our heritage back, it should be accessible
Finders & landowners must change mindsets, STOP "mine & money and think ours & gift"
Oxfordshire museum purchases iron age hoard after fundraiser
share.google/e6sEN497Y3fj...
Eyes down folks
Victorian stone ornaments stolen from Halifax school's gates entrance-way finials, Grade II listed Crossley Heath
#HeritageCrime
share.google/pxh7SOn7MFMu...
Victorian stone ornaments stolen from Halifax school's gates entrance-way finials, Grade II listed Crossley Heath
#HeritageCrime
share.google/pxh7SOn7MFMu...
Victorian stone ornaments stolen from Halifax school's gates - BBC News
A spokesperson for the school in Halifax said staff and pupils were left "saddened" by the theft.
share.google
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Eyes down folks
Victorian stone ornaments stolen from Halifax school's gates entrance-way finials, Grade II listed Crossley Heath
#HeritageCrime
share.google/pxh7SOn7MFMu...
Victorian stone ornaments stolen from Halifax school's gates entrance-way finials, Grade II listed Crossley Heath
#HeritageCrime
share.google/pxh7SOn7MFMu...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
There are three ways of showing a hidden detail of an object in a museum;
1: Drawings
1: Drawings
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
There are three ways of showing a hidden detail of an object in a museum;
1: Drawings
1: Drawings
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Join the Sussex PAS team in lovely Lewes as a part-time Finds Liaison Officer. This is an exciting job-share opportunity, now with less than a week left to apply. Full details at the link below:
sussexpast.co.uk/jobs/
sussexpast.co.uk/jobs/
Job Vacancies - Sussex Past
Heritage jobs in Sussex with The Sussex Archaeological Society. Paid roles in a charity promoting and protecting the history of Sussex.
sussexpast.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Join the Sussex PAS team in lovely Lewes as a part-time Finds Liaison Officer. This is an exciting job-share opportunity, now with less than a week left to apply. Full details at the link below:
sussexpast.co.uk/jobs/
sussexpast.co.uk/jobs/
Great advice from Ecclesiastical Insurance for Heritage Sites
Smash-and-grab attacks at heritage properties are a growing problem.
Attacks are typically carried out at speed.
Burglaries are usually carefully planned, targeting portable high-value items.
www.ecclesiastical.com/risk-managem...
Smash-and-grab attacks at heritage properties are a growing problem.
Attacks are typically carried out at speed.
Burglaries are usually carefully planned, targeting portable high-value items.
www.ecclesiastical.com/risk-managem...
Smash and grab attacks | Risk Management | Ecclesiastical
Discover how you can protect against smash and grab attacks
www.ecclesiastical.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great advice from Ecclesiastical Insurance for Heritage Sites
Smash-and-grab attacks at heritage properties are a growing problem.
Attacks are typically carried out at speed.
Burglaries are usually carefully planned, targeting portable high-value items.
www.ecclesiastical.com/risk-managem...
Smash-and-grab attacks at heritage properties are a growing problem.
Attacks are typically carried out at speed.
Burglaries are usually carefully planned, targeting portable high-value items.
www.ecclesiastical.com/risk-managem...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
"Bexhill remembers its war dead. The service at the Memorial on Sunday afternoon. Inset: The Mayor (Earl De La Warr) placing the town's tribute." Bexhill Observer 11.11.1933. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1930s #WarMemorial
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Bexhill remembers its war dead. The service at the Memorial on Sunday afternoon. Inset: The Mayor (Earl De La Warr) placing the town's tribute." Bexhill Observer 11.11.1933. #Bexhill #Sussex #History #1930s #WarMemorial
Or .... could it be donated to a museum 🤔 .
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Island metal detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
On one special morning, club members visited an Isle of Wight field which had not been touched by a metal detector for several years.
share.google
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Or .... could it be donated to a museum 🤔 .
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Our history, for future generations, not sold off to the highest bidder & lost!
Isle of Wight detectorist unearths 'the find of a lifetime'
“Either one of us will keep it, or it will have to go to auction"
share.google/UpKyAzIurksY...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News
Two men have been charged with burglary, but "invaluable" items are still missing from St Fagans collection.
share.google
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Every museum object is important but these are the cultural soul of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum of Wales. A representation of the beating heart of a nation.
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Search continues for Bronze Age artefacts stolen from St Fagans - BBC News share.google/9qJAUhEXkXo6...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
The latest in a series of papers that redefine and, in this case, corrects what we think about the evidence for early wooden weapons.
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear.....
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The latest in a series of papers that redefine and, in this case, corrects what we think about the evidence for early wooden weapons.
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
@annemiekemilks.bsky.social bringscexcelkebce in scientific method and research partners to the work. The results speak for themselves. 🦣🏺
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
“Who Pays for the Hobby?”: Metal Detecting in England and Wales
[A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This is a first for The Big Book of Torcs. Today, I open up BBoT to a guest blog, written by a friend and archaeological colleagu…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A guest blog, which adds more detail to the narrative of detecting in England & Wales.
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Thank you to my anonymous colleague for writing this important piece & for allowing me to host it on the Big Book of Torcs! 😊
#Archaeology #Detecting #Torcs #gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/08/w...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
"Roman Remains Near Bexhill.
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"Roman Remains Near Bexhill.
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
Mr. B. H. Lucas's Discoveries at Crowhurst Park.
Interesting Relics Of Hadrian Times.
#Roman remains in the form of pottery and shards, which have been identified as belonging to the second century, have been excavated..." #Bexhill Observer 7.11.1936. #Archaeology #1930s
UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12m from Chinese money-laundering suspect
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
UK seizes £12m Jurassic dinosaur fossils from money-laundering suspect
Dinosaur skeletons were bought last year at Christie’s Jurassic Icons auction for £12.4m
www.independent.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
UK seizes Jurassic dinosaur fossils worth £12m from Chinese money-laundering suspect
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
All three specimens were found in the Meilyn quarry in Wyoming “in close proximity to each other”
“I doubt that any of us will be dealing with one of these again"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Fascinating artifacts from early Roman Britain. Neil can take us on a wander.
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
Richborough Roman Fort
mainlymuseums.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Fascinating artifacts from early Roman Britain. Neil can take us on a wander.
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
#museums #museumfromhome #englishheritage mainlymuseums.com/post/1154/ri...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Over the last couple of years, I have become increasingly interested in the politics of torcs, gold and 'treasure'.
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
Who ‘owns’ Torcs?
These papers look at who owns, or believes they own, our shared national heritage – be that the artefacts themselves or the research that stems from them. In these, I look at some of the issu…
bigbookoftorcs.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Over the last couple of years, I have become increasingly interested in the politics of torcs, gold and 'treasure'.
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
If you want to read my ongoing thoughts on this, you can find everything here.
Thank you for reading... 😊
#Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Detecting
bigbookoftorcs.com/who-owns-tor...
Reposted by Sussex Heritage Community
Mixing, mingling, moving are standard for our genus.
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Denisovans may have interbred with mysterious group of ancient humans
We now have only the second high-quality genome from an ancient Denisovan human, which reveals there were more populations of this species than we thought
www.newscientist.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Mixing, mingling, moving are standard for our genus.
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
"New genome reveals Denisovans repeatedly interbred with Neanderthals ... also seem to have interbred with an unidentified group of ancient humans... One possibility is Homo erectus"
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...