The Portable Antiquities Scheme

One of our ex Finds Liaison Officers, Faye Simpson, is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Exeter and regularly presenting on Time Team. She’s asked me to publicise this free conference.
Community Archaeology in South West England
Free Conference held at Exeter University on the 21st of February 2009.
For abstract submissions and registration please see [...]

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 [...]

In these cash strapped times for PAS, we won’t be running a conference this year. However, there is one that might be of interest.
Conference Announcement:
The Council for British Archaeology is pleased to announce the Archaeology and Education conference for 2008 will take place on 5th September to 7th September (registration and [...]

I started this post about 3 weeks ago and forgot all about it. However, one of Tom Goskar’s tweets reminded me about the relaunch of Wessex Archaeology’s website. Like Surrey Archaeology Society’s website, this is another site done with Drupal as the content system and it has been heavily modified to allow the Wessex team [...]

Andrew Larcombe asked me by Twitter yesterday for a feed of images from the database for Surrey. This could be reused on the Surrey Archaeology Society website. Andrew has redeveloped their site using Drupal as the content management system, with jQuery as the javascript framework. They have some nice features (flickr feed, presentations on slideshare) [...]