The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Independent seems to be taking an interest in archaeology at present, and published an early story on this week’s launch of the Treasure Report for 2004. This is being launched alongside the more informative Portable Antiquities Scheme Annual Report for 2005-2006 at the British Museum on Wednesday this week.
The journalist picked on several key [...]

The BM is hosting a seminar as part of ”The Past from Above” season relating to threats to archaeology. This costs £5 normally and concessions £3. To book contact the Box Office on telephone +44(0)20 7323 8181 or boxoffice@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Thursday 25 January, 18.30
BP Lecture Theatre, Clore Education Centre
This discussion will cover environmental and man-made threats such as war [...]

Another Treasure acquisition has made it into the national press over the last couple of weeks, and this one is aesthetically rather nice as well. A gold Iron Age torc weighing 1.5lbs was discovered by Maurice Richardson.
Newark Torc aquired - Independent article
When it was originally reported back in 2005, the BBC ran a story on [...]

I’m just building a new website for the British Institute of Persian Studies to replace their old one . And I’ve been experimenting with adding Google and flickr to the basic Textpattern driven content management system. I haven’t gone down a plugin path for this, instead I’ve used a really good idea from David Ramos [...]

The Times online featured a story relating to an Early Medieval Sword pommel that was reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme and subsequently was processed under the Treasure Act. This object was recorded in the 2002 Treasure Report as 2002 T285 and has since been acquired by the BM. I’ll add a better picture to [...]