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
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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 [...]

One of my colleagues (Mr Sam Moorhead esq.) is co-curator of a new exhibition coming to the British Museum in the next few weeks. This is an exhibit of aerial photos by Georg Gerster of archaeological sites, which should be extremely interesting and is entitled “The Past from Above”. I plan on walking round and trying [...]