The Portable Antiquities Scheme

The release of the Treasure Report 2005-2006 has gathered a varied degree of press reports. The star object in their eyes is the Iron Age torc from Newark and this features heavily in the articles below.

The Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Financial Times
The Guardian
24 Hour Museum
BBC images of the finds - all sourced via our flickr feed
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More success for Treasure and the Portable Antiquities Scheme
The Treasure Annual Report, announced today, records another dramatic increase on the amount of finds reported in the last year, with 749 objects reported in 2007 (up from 665 in 2006). The current report includes all finds which have passed through the Treasure Process in 2005 and [...]

Yesterday I spent the day at Leicester for a Mashed Museum day organised by Mike Ellis of Eduserv in co-operation with Ross Parry from Leicester University. The day had around 20 people from an array of institutions (for example the National Maritime Museum, Arch & Anth Museum - (my favourite objects were their shrunken heads [...]

The discovery of two gold coins sheds light on a little known ‘British’ Emperor.
Two gold coins of the emperor Carausius have just been found on a construction site in the Midlands. They were reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme and archaeologists are investigating the find further. Gold coins of Carausius are extremely rare, [...]

The Technorati search has produced a few interesting hits over the last day or so. Two blogs in particular stand out with their standpoint on Illicit Antiquities trade. Derek Fincham talks about the return of Petroglyphs to their original home and finishes his commentary with:
The only real solution is to educate the public about the [...]