The Portable Antiquities Scheme

I found this the website by accident whilst looking up some Lawrence of Arabia stuff on google as I’m quite interested in that period of WWI history and Middle Eastern development. They are presently running a blog pertaining to their forthcoming “Lawrence of Arabia and the Light Horse” exhibition which is being presented next year. [...]

Up to three posts available
Cardiff School of History & Archaeology.
Salary range: GBP 26402 - 31525 per annum
The School is carrying out a search for up to three fixed-term Early Career Lecturers in Archaeology and Conservation. Applications are invited from individuals who have specialisms that complement or supplement the School’s current areas of [...]

Since our joint announcement with eBay back at the start of October, the Scheme has been monitoring sales on a regimented basis. However, this proved to be quite a labour intensive task. Therefore, I started to look into ways to monitor eBay more efficiently from an IT perspective. There were a couple of techniques that [...]

How on earth have we got to position 1 on google for Codex?

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I’ve been a bit lazy about this recently and Tom Goskar’s trumped me on this one. Geospatial data is central to the Scheme’s work; without it every single piece of information that we collect is worthless. Provenance is king for archaeological work, if you don’t know where something came from then you might as well [...]