The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Tomorrow sees the start of National Archaeology Week (intriguingly it runs for 9 days - 12th July - 20th August) and there is a wide and very varied series of events around the country that anyone can join in with. The Portable Antiquities Scheme is going to be at a huge variety of these, so [...]

Our Finds Liaison Officer for Greater London (Kate Sutton) was featured in the Times last week (June 19th 2008) and was interviewed about a career in archaeology.
“As a community archaeologist, I find opportunities to get the public involved in archaeology and sometimes I have to create the opportunities myself. Next week, for example, I’m running [...]

Cei Paynton, our Education Co-ordinator sent an email round about this show and I thought it would be good to share with you all.
The programme ‘Innovation – Digging for History’ will be shown as part of Innovation week in November. Schedules (and titles) do change, but currently it’s due to be shown for the [...]

Early in the summer of 2007, Kate Sutton (London FLO and Community Archaeologist) and the LAARC (London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre) team set up a community excavation in the playground of the Michael Faraday Primary School, Southwark.
The Michael Faraday Primary School is in the heart of the Aylesbury Estate which is the largest in [...]

Throughout National Archaeology Week (14 – 22 July) the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) will be running a series of archaeological finds identification and recording sessions at local museums and other venues: often these will include a variety of other activities for adults and children. On the 14 July, in conjunction with experts at the British [...]