The Portable Antiquities Scheme

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 [...]

The British Museum announced a new exhibition for this Summer, which is particularly relevant for many of our audience who find Roman coins and artefacts daily. The full press release from the BM press office is below. The Scheme has recorded over 600 coins of Hadrian, and 42 of his wife Sabina. When I get [...]

Collaborative PhD in Roman coin finds in Britain: The Institute of Archaeology, University College London and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, The British Museum
This AHRC funded PhD will support a student in researching the 45,000 or more Roman coins that have been recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (www.finds.org.uk) since 1997. The Project will start [...]

A collaborative Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded doctoral award to carry out an evaluation of the impact of metal-detected data gathered by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS)