The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Some of the Scheme’s staff (including me) have just been to Utrecht for the ICOMON conference on numismatics. I guess some people might be interested in the presentations that we gave. They probably don’t mean much without the words, but mine includes a few slides that relate to the forthcoming revamped database. Bear in mind [...]

This came via our National Finds Adviser for Prehistoric and Roman objects, Sally Worrell. Some of you may be interested in the below:
The 4th Joan Pye lecture, ‘Understanding Britain as a Roman Imperial Possession’, will be given by Professor David Mattingly (University of Leicester) on Tuesday 24th June 2008 at 6.00 in the House of [...]

The powerpoint presentation embedded below, is some of the training material that I present to our finds liaison officers. Some of our readers might find this useful, so I’m sharing it with you.
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The Northern Echo ran a story yesterday regarding 11 silver coins (a small hoard by definition) that was declared Treasure at inquest. This hoard contained a rare example of a coin issued by Hadrian (a British Museum exhibition starts shortly on his life and exploits) and a possible plated copy of a coin of his [...]

One of the more interesting finds to come through the Scheme’s identification service this year is an intriguing figurine depicting the Mithraic attendant Cautopates. This was found by a metal detector user (November 2007) in North Yorkshire and reported to Amy Cooper, our local FLO for South and West Yorkshire. Amy was assisted with the [...]