The Portable Antiquities Scheme

There’s been a few milestones reached in the last few weeks at the Scheme. Some of these are pretty trivial, some of them are a bit more far reaching.

More and more Heritage sector bodies are now starting to make use of RSS technology, and hopefully they are reaping the benefits. The Scheme has been offering RSS feeds drawn directly from the database backend for well over a year now. This was developed using a script drawn from a script by Rogers Cadenhead for [...]

The British Museum hosted a finds roadshow on Saturday May 20th. A filled day saw large crowds traversing through the Great Court to be met by Vikings and Romans, curators dressed as Tudor gents and Queen Elizabeth.

Today was the day my wee runic find was due to go before the Treasure Valuation Committee and I emailed the Treasure Department at the British Museum to make sure.
Fi from the Treasure Department has kindly replied as follows:
Dear Corinne,
Yes, your find did come up in the TVC today; the DCMS will be in touch
formally, [...]

Following the success of Matthew Bogdanos’ talk at the Society of Antiquaries of London in February 2006, the Colonel was invited to give a talk to a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group (Advisory Group).