Apart from Joe Boggins' back bedroom, Roman brooches and coins metal detected unrecorded in many cases from archaeological sites in Britain can be bought on ebay to be collected by Japanese teens or by Connecticut hillbillies and Ohio rednecks. Fine, nice for them, but this raises the fundamental question whether the keeping of contextless objects as seried collectables scattered between thousands of ephemeral personal collections all over the world a good way to be curating the archaeological record?