The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The release of the Treasure Report 2005-2006 has gathered a varied degree of press reports. The star object in their eyes is the Iron Age torc from Newark and this features heavily in the articles below.

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BBC images of the finds - all sourced via our flickr feed
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Below, I have included images from today's Treasure Report launch and an RSS feed direct to Yahoo news.

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Britain's best winter beaches (Daily Telegraph)A beachcombing walk is a great way to entertain children on a winter weekend. Louise Roddon suggests where to look for washedup wonders on Britain's shores.Pensioner reunited with family [...]

The outcome of the Review of the Portable Antiquities Scheme commissioned by MLA was announced today. The Report by an independent consultant (Kate Clark) is published on our website, at the same time as the Treasure Report 2005-06. The official press release is attached below this text.
Our principal funding body, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), and the Government [...]

More success for Treasure and the Portable Antiquities Scheme
The Treasure Annual Report, announced today, records another dramatic increase on the amount of finds reported in the last year, with 749 objects reported in 2007 (up from 665 in 2006). The current report includes all finds which have passed through the Treasure Process in 2005 and [...]

The BBC Today programme hosted a discussion between James Cuno and Colin Renfrew on antiquities. Some of our readership might be interested to listen to this and for some further critical analysis of this piece, check out David Gill's blog.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7710000/7710388.stm