The Portable Antiquities Scheme

One of the Scheme’s objects has just been featured in the American Institute of Archaeology’s magazine, aptly titled “Archaeology”. This documents the discovery of the Domitianus coin, which you may hear more of come November 9th! I’ll let you wait for that!
Finding a Lost Emperor in a Clay Pot
The article does mention the Treasure Act, [...]

I just saw this story in my home town’s paper when looking at the rugby results for the University. Not terribly interesting I’m sure you will say.
“An archaeologist who dug up his patio when it began to sink made an astonishing discovery.
Simon Timberlake, 49, noticed the subsidence in the back garden of his house in [...]

The Scheme, ALGAO and the NCMD have been locked in discussion with each other for the last couple of years over the publication of findspots on the internet. This was recently resolved and the transfer of data is due to happen shortly when the XML schema download functionality is finally installed by OAD.
I [...]

I’ve just upgraded the gallery system on our main website to Gallery version 2.0. This is another open-source product developed over the last 2 years by some really talented chaps. It is an exceptionally good product and really easy to use and install. You can even use plugins to integrate with Wordpress. I might do [...]

I’ve now been using zoomify on this website for about 9 months, and it is proving to be extremely useful for looking at high resolution images of artefacts. The best examples of how I have used it can be found within the Roman coins and Medieval and Early-Medieval coins sections of the finds.org.uk website.
Michael Shanks [...]