Portable Antiquities Scheme Reaches 1,000,000 & Farmer on Skye Doesn't Cairn! - WB 21st Dec 2021

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0:00 Introduction & Link of the Week

4:00 One Millionth P.A.S. Record!

22:13 Skye Farmer Wrecks Cairn

45:43 Mike Ingram: An Appreciation

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Link of the Week:

Raiders Temple Escape in LEGO:

https://tinyurl.com/mryxfp4r

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1 Million records of archaeological finds made by public now recorded:

https://finds.org.uk/news/story/307

Lincolnshire pendant is millionth archaeological find by public:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-59607288

Portable Antiquities Scheme logs millionth archaeological find:

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2021/12/portable-antiquities-scheme-logs-millionth-archaeological-find/

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Farmer fined for digging up ancient burial cairn:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-59653333

Scot fined £18k for destroying ancient cairn help his building project:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/scot-fined-c2-a318k-for-destroying-ancient-cairn-to-help-his-building-project/ar-AARNUQF

Skye farmer who destroyed ancient cairn for topsoil fined £18,000:

https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/articles/skye-farmer-who-destroyed-ancient-cairn-for-topsoil-fined-ps18000

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RIP Mike Ingram:

http://thepipeline.info/blog/2021/12/18/mike-ingram-an-appreciation/