Celtic League AGM focuses on lost treasures

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AGM FOCUSES ON LOST TREASURES

The ‘meat and drink’ of any Celtic League AGM are the reports and resolutions but the meeting does also focus on general issues and this year these included the upgrading of our MAIN webpages and the often overlooked lost ‘Celtic Treasures issue’.

The League have a separate web site on this which focuses on important artefacts from the Celtic countries held by institutions in England mainly in London. These include such items as the (bulk of) the Lewis Chessmen, The Chronicles of Man and the Isles and the Gold Cape of Mold (link):

http://celticartefacts.yolasite.com/

It was agreed we would upgrade, better publicise and utilise these issues in terms of campaigning.

Coincidentally just hours after the AGM comes a report on a significant find of Roman silver in Scotland (BBC link):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/…/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-4077…

Today of course such finds will be retained in their home countries and it begs the question why the Centralised British State insists on hanging on to items it looted from the Celtic countries in less enlightened times. It’s the continuation of cultural Imperialism.

Image: The Gold Cape of Mold found in Flintshire, Wales. It is now sometimes ‘loaned’ to institutions in Wales for display but held by the British (Museum) – why?

BERNARD MOFFATT
pp Celtic League

01/08/17