The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Over the last week, I’ve been adding some new features to the Scheme’s main website - http://www.finds.org.uk - and I hope that these prove to be useful additions. These include:

New Google map for showing regional recording areas and locations of FLOs
Upgraded profiles, now showing recording districts, local coroners locations and FLO location, quarterly recording stats [...]

The latest edition of Archaeology magazine from America has just run a story relating to the US military trying to raise the awareness of it’s troops towards archaeology in the territories that they are currently occupying.
To read more about this intiative, there’s two webpages that expand on this idea:
Archaeology magazine
Washington Post

Some of the people who read this site might have studied at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL or at various other institutions where Peter Ucko taught. He unfortunately passed away last week and several obituaries are now being published.
Peter John Ucko, archaeologist: born London 27 July 1938; Lecturer in Anthropology, University College London 1962-72, Director, [...]

One of our Finds Advisers, Kevin Leahy, has just had one of his major pieces of research and excavation work released for access by all on the Archaeological Data Service website.
Kevin Leahy’s report on the excavation, Interrupting the Pots; Excavation of Cleatham Anglo-Saxon Cemetery was published in 2007 as Council for British Archaeology Research Report, [...]

I found this on the technorati RSS feed today, and I think it might be of interest to our Romanist following. It is exactly the sort of thing that we should do at the BM with regards to excavated sites etc. I haven’t gone in depth into this to find out how it was created, [...]