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Yes it's been on already, it's a real hoot. They interviewed Ms Downing (I think it was), oh Lord how they made her squirm, I fear you'll enjoy it immensely!

They only concentrated on the Princess whereas the family had passed off hundreds of fakes, paintings and all sorts. Scary how easy it was.

The provenance of the princess was accepted simply because they got hold of a nineteenth century auction catalogue with a vague description of a statue but no photograph and drew a ring round it and said great grand daddy had bought her there. So you the Bolton taxpayer paid them £360k for two weeks work in their garden shed purely on that basis.

A detectorist is currently awaiting trial over allegedly faking loads of gold Roman coins. Those are dead easy, you just make a clay mould out of an original and stick it with a lump of gold into an electric kiln. EBay is full of them.

I think said film will be transferred to a DVD-R presentation. The Assyrian panel forged by these guys was laughably bad - as in crude. The expert at the British Museum spotted a swivel link in the bridle of one of the horses and realised that it hadn't been invented then and that was the start of their plot unravelling. However, you can't forge tumuli and the museum's response is simply to ignore them. In a sense my parents and I pose a polar opposite situation within Bolton (yes, there's a shed) - we've uncovered huge amounts of prehistoric remains in Bolton and the museum treats them as fake. I've spoken to Mrs Downing's replacement on the phone and he's just up his own cuneiform! We'll get more publicity - when the story eventually breaks.

And I was recently semi-accused of faking a piece of studio pottery on eBay - as if anyone would bother. (Search eBay under 'mint sugar jar').

The next episode of the Bolton saga is that the local history society made a video in the 1990's, on an heritage grant. It's not bad and the narrator, a person named Wilfred Harrison, is seen expounding local history within a church, next to the Toothills long barrows. He's chatting about the stained glass windows but the sandstone window frame, behind him, is clearly cupmarked. We've just got the ok to collect the key and to take a look at the windows with a camera. (It takes longer to explain than to carry out, probably).

Wow! I've just seen it - if anyone wants a copy please let me know. Bolton Museum is not like that, the boss of the museum was not like that, the accents and dialogue were all wrong but - a powerful drama. I've not used the Egypt curator's real name but she must feel accursed. The Friends of Bolton Museum just paid 40k of the total price for the Princess - the rest came from Lottery Heritage grants (but Notlob recently lost 6m in an Icelandic bank collapse). I probably went to school with Shaun's solicitor. Would you write to the man - in prison - hypothetically? He must have a deep guilt over that particular forgery and want to 'expiate' it - I would think. Try to interest him in prehistoric rock art forms? On the other side of the balance was Fred Dibnah, perhaps. Restoring ancient artefacts expertly and with a generous heart!