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.

The Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Financial Times
The Guardian
24 Hour Museum
BBC images of the finds - all sourced via our flickr feed
The [...]

The press release regarding the Annual report launch is now starting to filter through to the national and international press. Below is a selection that will be updated:

BBC
Guardian
Bloomberg
Reuters India
Times
Reuters London

More to follow when I get back to work tomorrow.
Dan

Today sees the opening of the British Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition about the First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army held within the iconic Round Reading Room in the Centre of the Great Court. When I came into work this morning, there were queues for the ticket booths and the Museum has sold 135,000 advance tickets (quoted in [...]