Bill Lockhart wrote:

>Another possibility is to sell off all the surplus artifacts to
>collectors and use the resulting money to finance legislation agains
>pothunting.
>(Before the hate mail starts pouring in, this is inteded as humor)


I'm for it, sort of.
What if we were to give redundant artifacts (I'm thinking of whole, late
19th-century glass bottles, which we have in abundance) to museums? They
could sell the stuff off and thereby:
1. reduce the retail value of these items and make pothunting less
attractive,
2. provide some income to museums, and
3. free up some space in archaeological facilities.

I'm totally in agreement with JHB concerning slag and clinker (nice to know
there's another clinker fetishist out there), but industrially made bottles
are a different kettle of fish. They are essentially identical and take up
a lot of room in a box.

I await the fallout.

Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University