Archive for January, 2006

2005 T298, Medieval Runic Gold Fragment from Essex

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

I’ve today come home from working away to find an email from Caroline Barton, Assistant Treasure Registrar at the British Museum

Update from the British Museum on the Gold Fragment

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Email received this morning from Sonja Marzinzik who is Curator of Insular Medieval Collections apologising for the endless delays to the Treasure report on the gold fragment I found last year.

MIDAS XML Schema - PAS

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Today saw our development team at Oxford ArchDigital implement the addition of the MIDAS XML elements to the Scheme’s database.

More magazine coverage/ database upgrades

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Scheme is covered in several popular archaeology/ metal detecting magazines

Medieval treasure acquired by Basingstoke’s Willis Museum

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

One of the Scheme’s recorded objects has just featured on the 24 Hour Museum’s site.
The report is slightly inaccurate as it states the item has been declared Treasure Trove, when it is subject to the Treasure Act, since it was found post 1996.

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