The Portable Antiquities Scheme

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 [...]

Last weekend, it was announced in the Queen’s Birthday honours, that the Head of the Portable Antiquities Scheme and Treasure (Roger Bland) has been awarded an OBE for services to Heritage. Roger has set up and maintained the Scheme, been instrumental in the reform of the Treasure Act (1996) and spent time on secondment at [...]

One of my colleagues (Hilary Orange) is involved in organising the conference outlined below and they are calling for papers:
‘HERITAGE CHAT’
November 14-16, 2008
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Hosted by Atkins Heritage, English Heritage and UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture
Concern for heritage of the recent past has long been confined to the particular interests of a [...]

I’m looking for someone to assist me for four months with the redevelopment of the Scheme’s website. If you’re interested, have a look at the spec below and visit the BM website for further details (when they get round to posting it!). Alternatively if you want to ask me any questions about the role, [...]

Back in December, I lectured the great Tim Schadla-Hall’s Public Archaeology course on the work that I and others do with digital technology. One of his students, Lorna Richardson, works for L-P Archaeology, which is run by some of my contemporaries from UCL (Guy Hunt and Matt Williams for example) and they have produced [...]