The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Alun Salt picked up on the fact that I’ve been adding data tables to the Swivel website last week, and he mentioned that he couldn’t see a way of comparing different data sets. You can in fact do this as the graph below demonstrates.

To create a comparison between two datasets is quite easy, follow these [...]

A surprising place for the Scheme to be mentioned came up today in the Sunday Times ‘In Gear‘ section. The facts are slightly skewed regarding Treasure and I don’t think the author did his research in depth. But hey, at least it is publicity at a time when we need it!

Sally Worrell sent this to our staff today and some of our readers might be interested:
What a bargain - Wessex Archaeology are getting rid of some of their publications for free and you only have to pay £2.50 for p&p! Visit their website at: http://news.wessexarch.co.uk/2008/02/29/free-archaeological-publications/
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Also, just to let you know that the long-awaited [...]

One of the more interesting finds to come through the Scheme’s identification service this year is an intriguing figurine depicting the Mithraic attendant Cautopates. This was found by a metal detector user (November 2007) in North Yorkshire and reported to Amy Cooper, our local FLO for South and West Yorkshire. Amy was assisted with the [...]

The following comes from a DeHavilland Alert, and a public account of this will be available shortly at theyworkforyou.com. I have not corrected a couple of errors within the text; however please note the 690,000 should read as 190,000 and diary should read as dowry.
MPs debate Portable Antiquities Scheme
Wed, 5 March 2008 | Debate [...]