Useful links
Organisations
Department for Culture Media and Sport
The government department with overall authority for portable antiquities and other heritage issues. DCMS both funds and oversees the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/
The Heritage Lottery Fund
The Fund has awarded a series of grants to fund 46 posts in England and Wales at the Portable Antiquities Scheme.
http://www.hlf.org.uk
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is the national development agency working for and on behalf of museums, libraries and archives and advising government on policy and priorities for the sector.
http://www.mla.gov.uk
English Heritage
The national organisation reponsible for many of England's greatest monuments and buildings. English Heritage is also the Government's adviser on archaeology.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
Cultural Property Advice
http://www.culturalpropertyadvice.gov.uk
Museums
The British Museum
The Museum is part of a group of organisations which oversees the running of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. It also provides funding for the West Midlands' pilot scheme.
http://www.theBritishMuseum.ac.uk
Resources
Cornucopia
Cornucopia : Discovering UK Collections will give a complete picture of the wealth of UK museum collections through a comprehensive database available on this website. This pilot website provides information on the 50 museums in England with Designated collections.
http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/
The Celtic Coin Index (CCI)
The Celtic Coin Index is a database of Iron Age coin finds from Britain. It is a research project based at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford.
http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/ccindex/ccindex.htm
Viking and Anglo-Saxon Landscape and Economy
VASLE is a major archaeological project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). It aims to analyse the wealth of data found through activities such as metal-detecting, against those found through more traditional archaeological methods. The project encompasses the whole of England, and aims to evaluate the density of settlements found by metal-detecting; provide a framework to identify different site types through their metalwork and coinage assemblages; to study site development and morphology; and to chart ethnic identity and change and economic development.
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/vasle/index.html
Pastscape
PastScape is a public digital database provided by English Heritage, which is derived from the National Monument Record's national datasets of up to 400,000 monument records, including maritime sites and wrecks. Although it is thus mainly concerned with sites and monuments, it also includes over 48,000 finds of artefacts. As Heritage Environment Records and the Portable Antiquities Scheme cover finds of individual artefacts more comprehensively, the NMR's dataset of findspots is now only updated where the finds indicate the presence of a monument. To access these records in PastScape use the term 'findspot' with the relevant period that you are interested in.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/pastscape
UNESCO Heritage Laws database
UNESCO's Cultural Law database. This lists each country that has submitted its heritage laws. The link will take you through to the laws of the United Kingdom.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28617&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
The People's Network
This site helps everyone to make the most of the online world: to enquire, discover and read online for free 24/7 from anywhere with access to the web.
http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/
Community Archaeology Forum - CBA
The CBA's Community Archaeology Forum: CAF. If you want to share the results of an archaeological excavation, buildings survey or landscape study project within your community with others, then this is the place for you. You can upload photographs, reports, maps or anything else relevant to your project.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/caf
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