Uncatalogued doesn’t necessarily mean unrecorded, just it hasn’t been investigated enough to record its history, condition, and significance etc. The items cou

Uncatalogued doesn’t necessarily mean unrecorded, just it hasn’t been investigated enough to record its history, condition, and significance etc. The items could need cleaning, they could be a box of fragments of pottery that might make a vase, or a large collection of scrolls that haven’t been interpreted. It isn’t just a record “one Roman gold looking brooch”, a badly catalogued museum item is just as bad as a non catalogued item.