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Stoneshifter Jan 16, 2009 10:03:47
Replying to nigelswift

Well, nobody can fake a tumulus - not when you've got the Geological Survey that has all the mineshafts shown. And the Northumbrian remains haven't been vilified - just ignored (it's not quite the same thing).

I wonder how much correspondence Shaun receives in prison, and how he deals with it. He'll be close to being paroled, I should think. Unwittingly he has become 'Bolton's best known artist'. You've got to give him that. I'm not sure who Bolton's best known artiste would be - Peter Kay, perhaps, or McKellium, maybe Sara.

The museum boss shown in the film is the man to whom I entrusted a woodfired porcelain pot of mine, years ago, when he was a long-haired individual. (It was my first act of philanthropy and a blinkin' nice pot). That jar has now gone missing - it was fired in a byre, rather than a shed. The last time I saw Steve - who is an expert on micro-invertebrates - he was balding and sad. He looked at my pristine barrow and went dashing off down Halliwell Rd, in high excitement. (etc)

N nigelswift
nigelswift Jan 16, 2009 10:27:24
Replying to Stoneshifter

"That jar has now gone missing..."

I must admit, that's the one point that I have great sympathy for metal detectorists about. There's hardly one of them that hasn't had stuff lost that way. Old donations I can understand but there's really no excuse for losing modern ones. You just give them a reference number and a shelf number and you don't move them without noting it on the computer. Tescos manage.
There's a huge wind of change blowing through the museum sector, Renaissance in the Regions etc. I don't think chaotic C19th record keeping will be tolerated much longer. (A retired Admiral is now in charge and he's hot stuff).

Don't worry about Shaun. He'll be a celebrity and have lots of offers to produce exhibition pieces - and his stuff will now sell for oodles.