The Portable Antiquities Scheme

I just saw this on the Britarch list, in amongst the ire being directed at the awful Bonekickers series. In a roundabout way, we’re sort of connected to this…..
The 1st September will see the deadline for this year’s Young Archaeologist of the Year Award 2008 entries. This competition is organised by the Young Archaeologists’ Club [...]

On the 24th July, the British Museum's eagerly awaited exhibition on the life of the Emperor Hadrian is due to open in the Round Reading Room. This follows on from the blockbusting 'First Emperor' exhibition that closes a few weeks ago and garnered much critical acclaim and helped the BM to beat Blackpool as the [...]

On July 1st 2008, the British Museum Review for 2007 - 2008 was released. The Scheme features prominently on pages 46 - 47 with details of the two gold aurei of Carausius found in Derbyshire, a Pilgrim's badge depicting Saint Thomas Becket (or classical name St. Thomas a Becket) from Lincolnshire, the figurine of Cautopates [...]

Roger Bland passed this information onto me for publicity and it seems like a very useful source of funding for the acquisition of artefacts for museums.
The Headley Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, is delighted to announce that following the success of the Headley Museums Treasure Acquisition Scheme, it has revised its criteria [...]

We are pleased to announce the 5th AHRC collaborative PhD award related to the Scheme, details are below. It is a much needed piece of research work that will add to the validity of our dataset.
AHRC Collaborative PhD in analysis of the distribution of Portable Antiquities Scheme data: Archaeology, University of Southampton and the Portable [...]