The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Telegraph ran this story on page 15 today - Treasure hunter finds rare Carausius coins - Telegraph. We broke news on this back in January this year.

The transcript of yesterday’s debate in the House of Lords, featuring Colin Renfrew and Rupert Redesdale amongst others, is now online at the theyworkforyou website.

The House of Lords held a debate this morning, which includes Lord Renfrew asking a question about the future of the Scheme. This can be seen for 28 days on the Parliament TV website and you need to watch about from about 15 - 20 minutes in. The transcript of the debate will be on [...]

This came round in our office notices today, a lecture in the British Museum Clore Centre, entitled “New perspectives: British history” given by Barry Cunliffe and Bonnie Greer.
They will be using the Museum’s collection to talk with young people about how archaeology is relevant today. Which is essentially very topical given the recent debates in [...]

My colleague would like to draw our readership’s attention to this conference that he is running; places going quickly now!
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
An international conference on the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
15 – 16 July 2008
The Bayeux Tapestry has attained near iconic status. Although extremely well known because it
depicts one of the most famous events in [...]