The Portable Antiquities Scheme

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Just heard from Caroline the FLO that the Museum have DISCLAIMED the silver annular brooch
Soon she will receive the disclaimer letter and then the brooch will be returned to me

Just returned from lecturing at Bristol University for their 3rd year undergrad course and their MPhil class. I tried out a new lecture on this one, highlighting a lot of the new work that we have implemented over the new year on our web servers, and expanding on future plans.
I’m not sure how interested the [...]

Spatial search using latitude and longitude - what’s near the Scheme

Slightly different process for this new Treasure find
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Caroline has told me that as the brooch is a straight forward object, she’ll write the report and send it onto the British Museum. This means the Treasure Registrar can get the complete file to the Essex coroner and it gets to an inquest much quicker. The British [...]

67,000 artefacts and 427 pieces of treasure were unearthed by members of the public in the past year.