The Portable Antiquities Scheme

I’ve had a couple of queries over the last week regarding the traffic light system that we use on our database. This reflects our workflow system of publication and is explained below:
- The red dot, which researchers and Finds Liaison Officers, admin and Finds Advisers can see means that the artefact record is incomplete. [...]

On the 24th July, the British Museum's eagerly awaited exhibition on the life of the Emperor Hadrian is due to open in the Round Reading Room. This follows on from the blockbusting 'First Emperor' exhibition that closes a few weeks ago and garnered much critical acclaim and helped the BM to beat Blackpool as the [...]

The Wordpress team released their latest offering of their fantastic blogging platform yesterday, so I took the opportunity to upgrade our system. We're now running on 2.6 and it allows for a lot more functionality in the editing suite. The side by side edit comparison is particularly useful in the environment that the Scheme works [...]

Tomorrow sees the start of National Archaeology Week (intriguingly it runs for 9 days - 12th July - 20th August) and there is a wide and very varied series of events around the country that anyone can join in with. The Portable Antiquities Scheme is going to be at a huge variety of these, so [...]

In these cash strapped times for PAS, we won't be running a conference this year. However, there is one that might be of interest.
Conference Announcement:
The Council for British Archaeology is pleased to announce the Archaeology and Education conference for 2008 will take place on 5th September to 7th September (registration and [...]