The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Scheme currently has two vacancies within it’s ranks! First off, a fulltime post as Finds Liaison Officer for Oxfordshire and Berkshire:Finds Liaison Officer: Oxfordshire and West Berkshire,  Ref: FLO267
Salary: Grade 7 £18,907 to £20,736
Closing date: 8th July
Interview date: 17th July
We need a dedicated, enthusiastic individual with excellent communication and organisational skills to promote and [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about some software that a community member from the detecting forum, UK Detectornet, created a while ago using services provided by Conduit. However other stuff has got in the way. What they have done is to create a toolbar for your browser that allows one to incorporate different RSS feeds [...]

Our Finds Liaison Officer for Greater London (Kate Sutton) was featured in the Times last week (June 19th 2008) and was interviewed about a career in archaeology.
“As a community archaeologist, I find opportunities to get the public involved in archaeology and sometimes I have to create the opportunities myself. Next week, for example, I’m running [...]

After the Mashed Museum Day at Leicester, I was inspired to try tagging the Scheme’s blogs via the OpenCalais service provided by Reuters (incidentally, the Chairman of our Trustees is rather high up there….) This was done with two plugins created by Dan Grossman:

WP Calais Archive Tagger
WP Calais Auto Tagger

Both of these plugins need curl [...]

Last weekend, it was announced in the Queen’s Birthday honours, that the Head of the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Treasure (Roger Bland) has been awarded an OBE for services to Heritage. Roger has set up and maintained the Scheme, been instrumental in the reform of the Treasure Act (1996) and spent time on secondment at [...]