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Identifying sites at risk from illicit metal detecting: from CRAVED to HOPPER

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posted on 2018-06-25, 08:50 authored by Louise Nicholas, Adam Daubney, Alasdair Booth
© 2018 Louise Grove, Adam Daubney and Alasdair Booth. Published with license by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Archaeological sites are at risk from acquisitive crime: this paper focuses in particular on illicit metal detecting. The effects of theft in this context are not merely financial, but have devastating impact on our knowledge and understanding of the site. Even where items are later recovered, we lose the vital clues about the precise context of an object. We therefore need to reduce the risk of theft occurring in the first place. This paper draws on case studies from England and presents a new methodology to assess which archaeological sites may be at risk from illicit metal detecting: ‘HOPPER’ identifies the characteristics of sites likely to be targeted by offenders looking for antiquities. In brief: History (a history of finds at the site); Open (the site has physical public access, and/or is documented in the public domain); Protection (protected status can act as a beacon for offenders); Publicity (site is known about or receiving new attention); Evasion (there are known ways to escape apprehension); and Repeat victimisation (The site has been a target before). The impact of HOPPER will be its use in the field to develop a pragmatic risk assessment applicable both in a local and international context.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Pages

1 - 15

Citation

GROVE, L.E., DAUBNEY, A. and BOOTH, A., 2018. Identifying sites at risk from illicit metal detecting: from CRAVED to HOPPER. International Journal of Heritage Studies, In Press.

Publisher

© The Authors. Published by Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2018-03-31

Publication date

2018

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Heritage Studies on 16 May 2018, available online https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1475408

ISSN

1352-7258

eISSN

1470-3610

Language

  • en