The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Our Finds Liaison Officer for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, Anja Rhode was on BBC 1’s Antiques Roadshow last night. You can watch this again here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00f7ff4
Skip forward to around 42 minutes and you’ll see Fiona Bruce chatting to Anja about the Treasure Act and being bemused by ear scoops.

This just came through in our office notices and might be of interest to those with a Romanist stance.
‘Hadrian’ - Saturday 19th July, BBC2, 20:00
As the British Museum prepares to launch its spectacular exhibition on the emperor Hadrian, Dan Snow takes us on a journey around Hadrian’s vast empire. As he does so, he uncovers [...]

I’ve only just found this, but Peter Twinn a metal detectorist and archaeology student at Bristol University who wrote an eloquent comment in response to Colin Renfrew’s article in the Guardian, was interviewed by the BBC. Here’s the YouTube video:

Matthew Cock, Head of Web at the British Museum’s web team has posted this video onto Youtube.

This complements other videos that you can also view on the YouTube site. Cool hey!

One of our Finds Advisers, the inimitable Sam Moorhead is currently featured on the Channel 4 microsite for their game show Codex. If you want to read Sam’s bio there or learn about other curatorial staff that the Scheme works with then read on.