The Portable Antiquities Scheme

This came via our National Finds Adviser for Prehistoric and Roman objects, Sally Worrell. Some of you may be interested in the below:
The 4th Joan Pye lecture, ‘Understanding Britain as a Roman Imperial Possession’, will be given by Professor David Mattingly (University of Leicester) on Tuesday 24th June 2008 at 6.00 in the House of [...]

Some of our website users make use of the and might have noticed that a proportion of the findspots were inaccurate. We had coins in the sea and outside their specified county. These have now been cleaned up and relocated where needed; therefore making the resource more valid for researchers. I have also added [...]

If you use our site frequently, you might have noticed that the servers have been less than reliable lately. I’ve been monitoring the logs (httpd, mysqld etc) to try and track the source of the server crashes down; it has been a hard slog as I’ve never done server maintenance regularly before. Several issues have [...]

The British Museum has got some interesting things occurring within its environs right now. Following on from the blockbusting “First Emperor” Exhibition, is the Hadrian exhibition (more relevant for the Scheme!) and the build up is evident around the Museum as the photos below demonstrate. Tickets are on sale now and there’s hoardings, posters and [...]

I’ve been asked to circulate this by the DCMS; if you feel you could do this, then please do apply:
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport would like to invite applications for persons to provide expert advice to the Secretary of State, on applications for approval in respect of immunity from seizure for cultural objects [...]