Almost 2,000 items including a sword, axe and javelin head from the Bronze Age are missing at the national museum.
Roman ceramic tiles, a bracelet, finger ring and bow brooch dating back to about the 2nd Century are also missing.
Museum Wales said no items of high financial value have been identified as lost or missing but was unable to provide pictures of missing items.
“we won’t give items back to their countries because we are better stewards of them”
“whoopsie daisy we lost a bunch of stuff”
Give them back to who? England?
No, they’re commenting on the justification you sometimes hear about why British institutions need to keep the cultural artifacts they looted from other countries in the past. Specifically, “we’re better equipped to preserve these items because your country is too poor/politically unstable/humid/whatever to be responsible to do so on your own.” Point here is that the British have been having a hard time lately keeping track of their own cultural treasures.
I don’t think that justification is particularly good to begin with, but it’s extra embarrassing when it comes out that you’re actually pretty incompetent at retaining and preserving items.