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<< Sites under Threat >> Ebay to help stop illegal antiquities auctions

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 09 October 2006  Page Views: 4654

Site WatchCountry: England Online auction site Ebay has agreed to help prevent illegal sales of treasures on the auction site to preserve Britain's heritage. It will now work with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) , which will monitor antiquities sold on Ebay to ensure sellers have the right to trade them.

If a listing is illegal, PAS will report it to the Art and Antiques Unit of the Metropolitan Police and Ebay. People who discover gold or silver objects, groups of coins from the same findspot, which are over 300 years old or prehistoric base-metal objects must report these finds.

The British Museum, which manages PAS on behalf of Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), told Computeractive that many are not and important finds ending up on Ebay and other online sites is a real concern.

Last year it discovered that around 450 finds that should have been reported to the relevant authority (the local coroner) under the Treasure Act appeared on sites such as Ebay.

This may not sound a lot, but when compared to the approximately 576 finds that were correctly reported in the same year, the scale of the problem becomes apparent.

More: Computer Active.

[Followers of the Britarch mailing list will know that in the past ebay has been giving the impression of having 'slopey shoulders' on this issue, so this is a welcome development]

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