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coldrum
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|  Posted 21-01-2008 at 22:27
VISITORS to a Roman palace could be stopped from handling artefacts after 27 items were stolen by thieves.
The artefacts taken from Fishbourne Roman Palace's new discovery centre include medieval jugs and a neolithic flint axe.
None of the items is of great financial value, being worth about £3,800 in total, but they are irreplaceable to the museum.
One of the stolen jugs was unearthed during an archaeological dig at the site of the proposed district museum in Tower Street, Chichester.
The £3.5m discovery centre conducts daily tours during which visitors are allowed to handle artefacts. But David Rudkin, director of Fishbourne Roman Palace in Fishbourne, West Sussex, said this might have to be reviewed.
'The centre was specifically designed to give the greatest public access possible, and that is how it has operated since its opening,' he said.
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/latest/Palace-raid-may-put-past.3689865.jp
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| Posted 22-01-2008 at 07:06
27 pieces as big as jugs and an axe went out the door before anyone reviewed the display method..
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| Posted 23-01-2008 at 00:27
It does'nt surprise me at all. I used to work in the library and things were always getting nicked. If Fishbourne palcae is anything like your average library it's probably understaffed and under funded which means that security measures are next to nothing.
And antiquities is big business. You only have to look on ebay to see how much of the heritage of Britain (and the world) is being sold.
If you can't get it by using a metal detector and digging it up you might as well go and nick it from somewhere.
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| Posted 23-01-2008 at 08:12
The replica Crown Jewels would look OK next to the TV, but are probably super-glued by suspicious pikemen.
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| Posted 26-01-2008 at 09:42
" However, if what the Scots actually handed Edward I in 1296 was, as has been claimed, the cess-pit cover from Scone Castle rather than the real Stone of Destiny, "a long succession of English and British monarchs have been crowned while atop a medieval toilet-seat lid!"
Coronations of Scottish kings took place at Moot Hill at Scone Palace. John Balliol was the last Scottish king to be crowned on the Stone at Scone in 1292; he was defeated four years later by Edward I. Today there is now only a replica of the stone at Scone. That is, unless the "Stone of Scone" at Edinburgh is a replica, or a toilet-seat lid, in which case the stone at Scone might be the real thing ..._M R Birch."
Lenin said that Marxism would have no use for gold except to make toilet seats. Wearing jewels while on the throne is taking that a bit far.
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| Posted 06-02-2008 at 12:53
The stolen items have been found:
A trolley trove of ancient treasures
Precious ancient artefacts stolen in a raid have been found dumped in a supermarket trolley.
Staff at the Tesco superstore in Fishbourne nearly threw away the 2,000-year-old haul thinking it was simply a load of rubbish.
But in the nick of time, the supermarket's eagle-eyed security manager Sue Blake realised the jugs, vases and plates were archaeological gems and stopped them from being destroyed in the store's compactor.
A total of 27 artefacts, including a medieval jug and neolithic flint axe, were taken last month from Fishbourne Roman Palace's new discovery centre, sparking a massive police appeal.
Mrs Blake, 43, from Waterlooville, said: 'There was a cardboard box found in a trolley at the front of the store. Staff were just going to throw it away, thinking it was a load of old junk.
'But I had a look at it and I knew it wasn't just your average jugs and vases. It looked very, very old.
'Unfortunately, my husband watches Time Team every week and I have to endure it, so I know my stuff!'
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/latest/A-trolley-trove-of-ancient.3742024.jp
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| Posted 07-02-2008 at 06:02
It's not often that artefacts are excavated twice.
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