Our FLO for Cambridgeshire with the help of her colleagues has produced a poster relating to Roman material culture found and reported to their department by the public:
Since 2005, more than 1200 objects have been reported to the Finds Liaison Officer in Cambridgeshire, mostly by metal detector users. About
one third of these finds date to the Roman period and include coins, brooches, jewellery and pottery. These are very important in increasing our
knowledge of Roman Cambridgeshire, by indicating new sites or providing more detailed information about those already known.
I’m not too sure where this poster is going to be displayed, but it does display the potential for new information to be gleaned from frequent recording. Over time, this will increase greatly and become far more useful for development control and other archaeological work.
OpenCalais helped to tag this with: metal detector users • Roman Cambridgeshire
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