The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Looking on the web the other day, I found several of our Annual Reports from 2003 - 2004 for sale at the price of £4. We have loads of these left, so if you want one get in touch with us and we’ll send you one for free. If you see our reports on sale [...]

The transcript of yesterday’s debate is now available on the Theyworkforyou website that brilliant resource provided by mysociety.org
I know that the Minister is aware of the excellent work of the portable antiquities scheme—it has recorded more than 314,000 finds on its database and its website received 82 million hits last year. It is probably [...]

At 2:30 today an oral questions session was held at Westminster. This features PAS heavily:
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/VideoPlayer.aspx?meetingId=875&rel=ok
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Thanks to Alun Salt (of the Archeoastronomy blog - have a read, he writes very lucid posts on a variety of archaeological topics) and Coturnix from “A blog around the clock“, I noticed that they had reference to Chris Vallance’s interviews for BBC radio 4 with Roger Bland. This is embedded below and you’ll need [...]

The Scheme’s database is now coming up to 5 years old by the start of the new financial year; it is time to rebuild and start again. However, due to our funding situation and the tight budget that we’re working under, we will be rebuilding the entire thing with a team of 2 (I’ll be [...]