The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Roman curse tablet outlined in Sam Moorhead’s article - “Cursing the Emperor” has featured in this morning’s Guardian in an article entitled “Rare find highlights antiquities fears” which has been followed up by a commentary piece by Lord Renfrew. This is an unique artefact on our database and provides a rare insight into the [...]

I recently gave a lecture to the Public Archaeology Course at the Institute of Archaeology. Some of you might find it useful so it is attached below.
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One of our Finds Advisers, the inimitable Sam Moorhead is currently featured on the Channel 4 microsite for their game show Codex. If you want to read Sam’s bio there or learn about other curatorial staff that the Scheme works with then read on.

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I have recently been involved in a project to write resources for schools visiting the Tutankhamun exhibition at the O2 centre and I thought some might find it interesting to hear about this and what was involved. I work as an Education Officer at the British Museum. Many people say that I spend [...]

This came through on one of the mailing lists today and is probably of interest to many of our readers. Portable Antiquities stuff in these is written by Helen Geake, and I provide the stats. If you specifically look for these, go to Medieval Britain and Ireland in (the year you want to read!)
Enjoy.
Dan
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