The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The British Museum has undergone some extensive work over the last year or so. One of the latest additions are British Sign Language videos which were produced by students from Frank Barnes Primary School for Deaf children. They worked with Museum staff to give their own interpretations of African masks and headdresses, the Assyrian lion [...]

One of our ex Finds Liaison Officers, Faye Simpson, is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Exeter and regularly presenting on Time Team. She’s asked me to publicise this free conference.
Community Archaeology in South West England
Free Conference held at Exeter University on the 21st of February 2009.
For abstract submissions and registration please see [...]

The forthcoming Hadrian exhibition is now starting to generate quiet a lot of coverage in the press. The RSS feed from Yahoo! (Google has tables in their markup and that ruined my aesthethics ) incorporated into this post updates with the latest news stories relating to the exhibition. Happy reading
Last night also [...]

This just came through in our office notices and might be of interest to those with a Romanist stance.
'Hadrian' - Saturday 19th July, BBC2, 20:00
As the British Museum prepares to launch its spectacular exhibition on the emperor Hadrian, Dan Snow takes us on a journey around Hadrian's vast empire. As he does so, he uncovers [...]

I just saw this on the Britarch list, in amongst the ire being directed at the awful Bonekickers series. In a roundabout way, we're sort of connected to this.....
The 1st September will see the deadline for this year's Young Archaeologist of the Year Award 2008 entries. This competition is organised by the Young Archaeologists' Club [...]