The Portable Antiquities Scheme

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I’ve received a couple of interesting emails from Leslie Webster, who is the Keeper at the Department of Prehistory and Europe in The British Museum with some of her thoughts about the find.
Here is some of what she tells me:
David was in yesterday and confirmed that his reading agrees with the above. These are also [...]

The Scheme’s database is being upgraded today, with some much needed technological refreshes and some great new features. I’m really looking forward to these being implemented. There’s these bits and pieces to come:

New image viewer (zoomify style)
New map client (new maps to come)
Spatial proximity listers
Workflow indicators
Enquiry button
RSS search facility
Area of interest alerts
Self registration
Enhanced data entry [...]

So is anyone watching the Lion TV production of Tales from the green valley, a more original take on reality tv, with modern archaeologists and historians living and working in a 17th century house. This features several people I went to the Institute of Archaeology with. Nice to see Alex Langlands is still alive, even [...]

The Telegraph (yes I do read it), ran this story on Wednesday, which talks about the unravelling of the strings that have baffled scholars for centuries. There’s some straightforward statistical analysis involved and the scholars who are researching this seem pretty sure. Time will no doubt fill in the blanks. Not like Cities of [...]

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Email from Caroline the FLO to myself and Kevin Leahy
Dear Kevin, Corinne,
I deposited the fragment at the BM yesterday and had a very nice chat with Lesley Webster. She also read the runes as described by Prof Waxenberger, but did not commit herself to a possible reading. Perhaps she has heard from the professor as [...]