The Portable Antiquities Scheme

On July 1st 2008, the British Museum Review for 2007 - 2008 was released. The Scheme features prominently on pages 46 - 47 with details of the two gold aurei of Carausius found in Derbyshire, a Pilgrim’s badge depicting Saint Thomas Becket (or classical name St. Thomas a Becket) from Lincolnshire, the figurine of Cautopates [...]

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) [...]

The Scheme currently has two vacancies within it’s ranks! First off, a fulltime post as Finds Liaison Officer for Oxfordshire and Berkshire:Finds Liaison Officer: Oxfordshire and West Berkshire,  Ref: FLO267
Salary: Grade 7 £18,907 to £20,736
Closing date: 8th July
Interview date: 17th July
We need a dedicated, enthusiastic individual with excellent communication and organisational skills to promote and [...]

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 [...]