The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Friday 26th August 2005
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Another update from Caroline today:

Hi Co,
I have now had a response from Leslie Webster at the BM who has been away. She is deferring judgment until she sees the widget, but has passed details over to another expert at Nottingham University, so there are lots of people on the case now!
hope all [...]

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The farmer has mentioned the possibility of the land where the find was made being scheduled - this is obviously a concern to farmers where small finds are made as they have a business to run and land to plough and farm.
I have emailed him to tell him I do not think that one small [...]

The Scheme engaged OAD to write the XML Schema for the transfer of data from our database into regional Historic Environment Records. Documentation can be found here:
http://heritage-standards.org/midas/docs/object/
And an example can be found here:
http://heritage-standards.org/midas/examples/object_example.xml
This is still in the drafting process and will be formalised soon…..

The Staffordshire Moorland’s pan has finally made it into Compass. There is a new description provided by my eminent colleague Dr Ralph Jackson, and some nice images.

Book review of David Hinton’s latest work. The review contains one glaring mistake!