Unclassified Archaeological Remains Piling Up in Storage

BBC News Northern Ireland has reported that

"Hundreds of thousands of archaeological items recovered from historic sites in Northern Ireland are lying unclassified in plastic bags and boxes."

One wonders about the situation in countries that aggressively seek to control all archaeological items, like Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, etc.  

Yet, such information never finds its way into the archaeo-blogosphere, which instead insists every last shard must be under the control of state sponsored archaeologists so it can be properly studied and preserved.