So CNN and the Washington Post have been ringing us this morning. Little old us, a tiny archaeology group from Lincolnshire.

We are still getting publicity about the Norton Disney dodecahedron nearly two months after we appeared on Digging for Britain😀

Roman object from Norton Disney that has baffled experts to go on show at Lincoln Museum bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Dr Dan Poulter defects to Labour #Suffolk bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

And just like that, the Getty’s record for the bronze head it is returning to Türkiye has been vaporized.

So much for the preservation of knowledge!

2 more sleeps until #InternationalDayoftheDandelion let's all get ready to celebrate our #pollinator snack bars, lighting up parks, verges and fields across the country and indeed the globe.

On Cleveland's behavior in this matter: hyperallergic.com/862516/clevela…

Another Bubon piece is returning: news.artnet.com/art-world/gett…. Still looking at you, Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art

Here's David Gill's 2019 paper on Koutoulakis: 'Context matters: Nicolas Koutoulakis, the Antiquities Market and Due Diligence'

He notes Toledo Museum of Art returned a skyphos from Koutoulakis in 2019 that appeared in the Medici dossier

academia.edu/40837936/Conte…

David Gill Elizabeth Marlowe Tom Mashberg notes in The New York Times the prior Koutoulakis returns by Getty and Bonhams and quotes David Gill:

“These cases raise concern that pieces associated with Koutoulakis could have fabricated or misrepresented histories”

nytimes.com/2024/04/24/art…

The bibliography for the bronze contains several clues about its origins and path through the market: Vermuele, Inan, Kozloff, Gill. But where's Marlowe?

BIG: The ⁦Getty⁩ is returning its majestic bronze Statue of a Youth to Turkiye after seeing ⁦⁦Alvin Bragg⁩ evidence it had been looted in Bubon along with bronzes recently returned by ⁦The Metropolitan Museum of Art⁩ ⁦Museum of Fine Arts, Boston⁩ and others getty.edu/art/collection…

Cambridge college returns 18th Century Aboriginal spears bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

The mounds ⁦Sutton Hoo⁩

Salvator Rosa painting stolen from Oxford recovered in Romania after four years bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Desperately sad news.
Museums are treasure houses of objects and knowledge, founts of inspiration for future generations, places of wonder - and research. Places that invite us to see ourselves in a deep, wide context.
Our society and culture is impoverished if we lose them.

Cuts to Amgueddfa Cymru | Museum Wales #museums #Cymru
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

6 red admiral, 5 peacock, 6 orange tip, 3 comma ⁦Sutton Hoo⁩ ⁦BC Suffolk Branch⁩

Corinthian oinochoe removed from Corinth in 1943 to be returned to Greece

100 butterfly sightings with 8 varieties this year including 47 peacock BC Suffolk Branch