The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Scheme is busy drawing up the details for the next annual Conference, held at the British Museum. The call has been extended until the end of October due to academic institutions being away when this was announced. We expect the event to be well attended and have some very interesting and academic discussions. The published proceedings [...]

Download the Thornborough Henges Rally report 
Over at the British Archaeological Jobs Resouce site (http://www.bajr.org/), a document has been produced as an independent report on the recent metal detecting rally on the land around Thornborough’s Henges (not on the protected area). The Henges have been at the centre of a large legal battle revolving around Tarmac’s [...]

The Durga is coming down in the Great Court, and I was a bit slow getting over there to take any decent photos. So I’ve only got some individual photos of the straw and plaster figurines which have been taken down from their framework before their immersion in the Thames. You can view these in [...]

We entered the Museum sector accessibility competition for websites earlier this year, which is an annual event in memory of a girl who was an employee of the British Museum. This is called the Jodi Mattes award, and I’ve worked quite hard to try and make this website much more accessible. We didn’t win, but [...]

I’ve been watching the flickr feed for the British Museum, waiting for someone to post pictures of the Durga: Creating an image of the goddess exhibition that is currently on display within the Museum’s Great Court. This construction is all part of the Bengal season at the BM, and to quote the BM website, this [...]