The Portable Antiquities Scheme

We are now into October - and the only news I can tell you is that the fragment is again going before the Treasure Valuation Committee on this Friday.
Its being resubmitted at the request of the landowner who has queried how the valuation was reached.
More to follow when I know the result!

Less than 11 months after I found and handed this tiny piece of excitement over to Caroline my FLO , it has now been before the Treasure Valuation Committee on the 30th June. Prior to that two separate valuations were done by the “experts” who are called into the British Museum by the DCMS to [...]

Today was the day my wee runic find was due to go before the Treasure Valuation Committee and I emailed the Treasure Department at the British Museum to make sure.
Fi from the Treasure Department has kindly replied as follows:
Dear Corinne,
Yes, your find did come up in the TVC today; the DCMS will be in touch
formally, [...]

I have also been sent this lovely line drawing of my find - and can now see the images of the find on the PAS database

The image was drawn by David Williams and is copyright of PAS

I’ve heard today from Laura Dance at the DCMS regarding the gold fragment. She says :
“My colleague Helen should be writing to you today with the provisional valuation for this find and the information that it will go before TVC on May 19th.
Unfortunately the provisional valuation arrived back just slightly too late to make [...]