The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Hosted by Tony Robinson CODEX is back for a second series – but this time two teams will compete every week to win the history quiz series!
Are you interested in history? Are you brave enough to spend the night in a Museum? Can you make up a team?
We are looking for teams of 3 people, [...]

I’ll be adding the conference papers as and when I get access to them.
To recap, here’s the first day’s speakers:
The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s Database: Its Development for Research Since 1998
Unedited proceedings write up
Dan Pett, British Museum
The Portable Antiquities Scheme: the Contribution of Lithics and Lithic Scatters
Clive Bond, University of Winchester
Bronze Age Hoards: Their Contribution to [...]

http://www.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/archaeology.php
The new syllabi for AQA’s archaeology examination have been released this week. Sam Moorhead asked me nicely if I would add this to our website, so here we are. It has to keep being studied and in some ways, I think this is harder than my undergrad degree.

The Scheme’s tenth anniversary conference is on at the British Museum tomorrow and Wednesday. This is a chance for the Scheme to demonstrate the impact that the Scheme and analysis of collected data, has made upon the archaeological world. There’s an extremely varied lineup, some great speakers and some really interesting research to be [...]

Collaborative PhD in Roman coin finds in Britain: The Institute of Archaeology, University College London and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, The British Museum
This AHRC funded PhD will support a student in researching the 45,000 or more Roman coins that have been recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (www.finds.org.uk) since 1997. The Project will start [...]