The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The powerpoint presentation embedded below, is some of the training material that I present to our finds liaison officers. Some of our readers might find this useful, so I’m sharing it with you.
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The discovery of two gold coins sheds light on a little known ‘British’ Emperor.
Two gold coins of the emperor Carausius have just been found on a construction site in the Midlands. They were reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme and archaeologists are investigating the find further. Gold coins of Carausius are extremely rare, [...]

Archaeology 2008 - A conference at the British Museum, 9th-10th February 2008:
A call for papers
A major new conference sponsored by Current Archaeology and the British Museum’s Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure (Portable Antiquities Scheme) is being held at the British Museum on the weekend of 9th to 10th February 2008 to demonstrate the best [...]

Early this year, a metal detectorist called Tom Redmayne was searching in a muddy field in the parish of Fulstow in Lincolnshire. He had already found Roman pottery (Samian ware from Gaul), some late Roman coins and several lead weights. Then he found several pieces pieces of lead, two of which were folded over.When he [...]

Roman coins make up the single largest group of finds recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Because they are so common, and because they can be identified and dated quite easily, they make up one of the most important sources of evidence for Roman Britain.
Roman coins are used by archaeologists to help date sites and [...]