The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Over the last two weeks, the Museum has been hosting a group of teenagers who are part of the Young Graduates for Museums and Galleries Scheme. We have had Helen Etheridge and Dominic Coyne working with us on various tasks. They have been absolutely brilliant and we would host them again. Maybe they will end [...]

Archaeology 2008 - A conference at the British Museum, 9th-10th February 2008:
A call for papers
A major new conference sponsored by Current Archaeology and the British Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure (Portable Antiquities Scheme) is being held at the British Museum on the weekend of 9th to 10th February 2008 to demonstrate the best [...]

This coming month marks the 10 year anniversary of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. To mark this occasion and bring the Scheme to a wider audience, Roger Bland, head of the Scheme, has written a 4 page article in the September edition of BBC’s History magazine.
The article features a run down of the Treasure Act [...]

Early in the summer of 2007, Kate Sutton (London FLO and Community Archaeologist) and the LAARC (London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre) team set up a community excavation in the playground of the Michael Faraday Primary School, Southwark.
The Michael Faraday Primary School is in the heart of the Aylesbury Estate which is the largest in [...]

Emily White, a young archaeologist from Hereford, recently found three flints whilst out fieldwalking. She reported these to the Finds Liaison Officer (FLO), Peter Reavill, who works for the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). These flints are some of the earliest evidence for people living in Herefordshire in prehistoric times.
Emily discovered the flints while her parents [...]