The Portable Antiquities Scheme

My colleague, Michael Lewis, has been working as a Special Constable for the Met Police for the last year or so and has now found some fame in the Art Newspaper. This article gives just a small snippet of information about what they do.
On the beat with the art world’s part-time police - The Art [...]

Our Finds Liaison Officer for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, Anja Rhode was on BBC 1’s Antiques Roadshow last night. You can watch this again here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00f7ff4
Skip forward to around 42 minutes and you’ll see Fiona Bruce chatting to Anja about the Treasure Act and being bemused by ear scoops.

If you around Bloomsbury this Saturday, why not call in and see this at the BM:
Celebrating the launch of the Cultural Olympiad
Saturday 27 September, 11.00-16.30
Great Court
Admission free, just drop in
Join us for storytelling from around the world throughout the galleries to celebrate the launch of the Cultural Olympiad, a four-year programme of culture leading up [...]

Apologies for the lack of posting on the blogs recently. I'm currently engaged in rebuilding the Scheme database to make it more usable and also more joined up. This is going to take a while and I'm using Zend Framework as the base. I think I should share some code and here's a view helper [...]

The booking deadline for the Archaeology and Education 2008 conference is approaching fast! So to get your place you need to book before Friday by going to www.britarch.ac.uk/shop/ or by sending the attached booking form back to us here at the CBA.
The Archaeology and Education conference for 2008 will take place on 5th September to [...]