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I'm no tomb raider

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 22 February 2006
By GLEN COOPER A PROPERTY developer says he's not wanting to make a quick buck by selling a 2,000 year-old tombstone unearthed at one of his development sites in Lancaster. As revealed in The Visitor in November the artefact has been hailed as one of the most significant archaeological finds in the city's history. And historians have expressed alarm at the news that developer Chris Tudor-Whelan has been investigating how much he could hope to sell it, possibly to foreign bidders. The stone, from the late second or early first century, depicts a mounted Roman cavalryman holding the head of a man he has just decapitated. The stone was found during an archaeological dig late last year at a city-centre site earmarked for apartments. Mr Tudor-Whelan confirmed that he had consulted Sotheby's about an approximate value but said he was not looking to make a huge profit by selling it abroad. He told The Visitor: "I have invested a lot in Lancaster and I'm not looking to sell off its heritage. "But I would like to cover my costs. I had to pay a total of about Â£39,000 to have the digs completed under the planning regulations and, with the delay to the building that resulted, I reckon it's cost me about Â£50,000, which is a lot to recoup. "Sotheby's told me of a ballpark figure in the region of $100,000 and said this sort of thing was very popular through their New York office. "But I've already been contacted by someone who offered to buy it as long as it remained in Lancaster and that's what I'd like to happen, but we'll have to see what develops." The stone is currently being dried out at the Lancashire County Museum in Preston. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 15 February 2006 http://www.morecambetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=34&ArticleID=1351557

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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	you mean I'm still alive?

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