The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The exciting Viking hoard that was announced earlier this year, has just been featured in the AIA’s magazine.
In a muddy field near the town of Harrogate in northern England, father-and-son metal detectorists David and Andrew Whelan made a remarkable discovery: the largest and most spectacular Viking treasure hoard found in Britain for 150 years. [...]

The British Museum is running a series of events for half-term based around the blockbusting First Emperor exhibition. Our two Young Graduates for Museums and Galleries interns, Helen Etheridge and Dominic Coyne, have come back to help out and are presently engaged in:

leading people to story telling,

helping children build an Imperial City
build their [...]

Today is quite momentous for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Charlotte Burrill, Finds Liaison Officer for Berkshire & Oxfordshire recorded the 300,000th object onto the Scheme’s database. I’m not sure why she recorded this today, as she is actually on leave, shows how dedicated they all are! There are other records in a paper format, so [...]

Checking through comments on the CCI blog, I found this one by Steve White who runs the Online Archaeology website:
Dan -
I only just caught this blog. You’ve done a great job getting this API out, and I hope it will encourage others.
I’ve added it to my map, here’s the instructions:
- Go to http://www.online-archaeology.co.uk/GoogleMap/
- Click Browse
- [...]

Just a heads up for some readers. The British Museum website has changed to better represent the Museum as a museum of the world, with the use of .org being more familiar to a global audience. Coupled with the shorter address (dropping the redundant ‘the’) the new address would be easier to promote, and recall. [...]