The Portable Antiquities Scheme

AHRC Research Grants Scheme Project PhD studentship
The Gallo-Roman sigillata (samian) industries

Limit of tenure: Fixed term funding, no renewal. Limit of tenure: 3-year PhD studentship running from 1st October 2008 to 30th September 2011
Professor Michael Fulford, Department of Archaeology, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading has been successful in obtaining research grant [...]

I meant to write this up on Friday, but I’ve been searching for a decent image - to no avail. I’ll use the one from this year’s Treasure report (forthcoming) to show this Viking Arm ring which has an interesting story behind it’s acquisition.

The 24 Hour Museum have featured a story  about this piece of [...]

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Woo Hoo! I’ve received the following reading of the runes from DrGaby Waxenberger who is based at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany:
The inscription is on two sides of the object and has three runes on each side.
I consider the inscription as Old English because of the diagnostic rune æ
READING
I read (from left [...]

A number of people have been emailing me regarding my wee find.