The Portable Antiquities Scheme

My google scraper has come up with another small gem; my colleague Sam describing his co-curated exhibition “The Past from Above” which is well worth a trip to see. The artefacts in the gallery really set this show apart from a mere photography exhibition.
Sam says in the interview:
“We thought that just having images in this [...]

Our FLO for Cambridgeshire with the help of her colleagues has produced a poster relating to Roman material culture found and reported to their department by the public:
Since 2005, more than 1200 objects have been reported to the Finds Liaison Officer in Cambridgeshire, mostly by metal detector users. About
one third of these finds date to [...]

The British Museum’s department of Learning and Information are holding some family events to coincide with Channel 4’s gameshow Codex. Every weekend from 25 November and then daily from the 20-31 December, 11.00-16.00. I assume there won’t be any over the Christmas dates though as the Museum is shut…. You can join in free in [...]

The BBC ran an article on Monday about a Bronze Age weapons cache that was recorded with the Scheme by the finder. You can read more about these objects on our database - record number NMGW-440A24
If you would like to know more about treasure, then you can get filled in by our Treasure pages.

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And just for the readers who don’t know about the Fratellis visit their site.