The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The provisional programme for our conference has been drafted and it is laid out below. I doubt anyone will want to turn up to listen to what I have to say!   I’m personally looking forward to the Schadla-Hall talk as they are always worth listening to.
Conference tickets are available from Claire Costin (ccostin@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk) - £10 for 1 day, [...]

The Scheme has featured today in the Guardian, with a long article on metal detecting and the work that we do. Frank Basford, FLO for the Isle of Wight features strongly in the print version.  Franks is praised for some aspects of his work below:
Basford is a sign of the new entente cordial between archaeologists and [...]

Somehow Adam Daubney, FLO for Lincolnshire and myself have managed to get ourselves quoted on Discovery News’ website. This relates to a small printed Bible that was found and reported to the Scheme earlier this year.
Adam was reported to have said:
“The earliest reference to the use of shoes as some kind of spirit trap comes [...]

The Scheme’s Finds Advisers have been discussing research topics amongst themselves and this is what they have come up with. If you want to perhaps take on these topics then you should contact them for a chat. This list is probably not complete but makes use of the database that has been running since 1997. [...]