The site was investigated by archaeologists in connection with the rebuilding of a traffic site last year at the E6 motorway. The report compiled in connection with the excavation lists a large number of findings. But the archaeologists did not have the resources to seize everything and were forced to "cull" a large number of objects, i.e. send them to the junkyard. Several coins and buttons as well as a knife and a ring. Other objects that have been thrown away are the amulettringar which were ritual objects for the old Swede during the Vendel and the Viking Age. "It is provocative when other countries make every effort to preserve the cultural heritage and dare life for it," says Lena Holmquist, who is an archaeologist at Stockholm University focusing on the Viking age. According to Svenska Dagbladet's culture writer Ola Wong, it's about "quickly and cheaply getting away from the cultural heritage" in order to get started with planned road or house construction. Runer also says that archaeologists do not give away or sell the finds to collectors, something that could have saved them to posterity. The reason is that you do not want to create a market for ancient objects and thus encourage looters to embark on metal detectors to look up their own bargains.
Cucks all of them...throw it away instead of selling to collectors???
As if no one has ever thought "looting for ancient artifacts could make me a pretty penny from the highest bidder". What makes these archaeologists the only people allowed in on the game anyways? The amount "looters" have found and sold that these archaeologists would never care about or see or know of is probably pretty amazing. Just a bad excuse.
The site was investigated by archaeologists in connection with the rebuilding of a traffic site last year at the E6 motorway. The report compiled in connection with the excavation lists a large number of findings. But the archaeologists did not have the resources to seize everything and were forced to "cull" a large number of objects, i.e. send them to the junkyard. Several coins and buttons as well as a knife and a ring. Other objects that have been thrown away are the amulettringar which were ritual objects for the old Swede during the Vendel and the Viking Age. "It is provocative when other countries make every effort to preserve the cultural heritage and dare life for it," says Lena Holmquist, who is an archaeologist at Stockholm University focusing on the Viking age. According to Svenska Dagbladet's culture writer Ola Wong, it's about "quickly and cheaply getting away from the cultural heritage" in order to get started with planned road or house construction. Runer also says that archaeologists do not give away or sell the finds to collectors, something that could have saved them to posterity. The reason is that you do not want to create a market for ancient objects and thus encourage looters to embark on metal detectors to look up their own bargains.
Cucks all of them...throw it away instead of selling to collectors???
As if no one has ever thought "looting for ancient artifacts could make me a pretty penny from the highest bidder". What makes these archaeologists the only people allowed in on the game anyways? The amount "looters" have found and sold that these archaeologists would never care about or see or know of is probably pretty amazing. Just a bad excuse.