The Portable Antiquities Scheme

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The Portable Antiquities Scheme is run by the British Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales to encourage the recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. Every year many thousands of archaeological objects are discovered, many of these by metal detector users, but also by people whilst out walking, gardening or going about their daily work. Finds recorded with the Scheme help advance knowledge of the history and archaeology of England and Wales.

Project role

• ICT Advisor, Development of database

Institution

• The British Museum

Funders

• DCMS
• Heritage Lottery Fund
• The Headley Trust
• The British Museum Research Fund

Project website

• https://finds.org.uk

Collaborators

• Mary Chester-Kadwell
• Tyler Bell
• Andrew Larcombe
• Vuk Trifkovic
• Jocke Selin
• Stephen Moon

Publications

• Pett, D.E.J. (2018) The Treasure Act and Portable Antiquities Scheme in England and Wales in Key Concepts in Public Archaeology (Moshenska, G. Ed) DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1vxm8r7.12
• Pett, D.E.J. (2014) ‘Linking Portable Antiquities to a wider web’ in Thomas Elliott, T., Heath, S., and Muccigrosso, J. (eds) Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World
• Pett, D.E.J. (2011) ‘Distributing the wealth’ in Cooke, B. (ed.) The British Museum and the future of Numismatics. London: British Museum Press.
• Pett, D.E.J. (2010) ‘Meeting public interest in the Staffordshire Hoard.‘ British Archaeology 110
• Pett, D.E.J. (2010) ‘The Portable Antiquities Schemes Database: its development for research since 1998’ in Lewis, M. et al (ed.) Proceedings of the PAS conference David Brown Book Company
• Bland, R., Moorhead, S., & Pett, D.E.J. (2010) ‘Hoarding in ancient Britain.’ Current Archaeology Volume 248
• Gruber, E., Heath, S., Meadows, A., Pett, D., Tolle, K. and Wigg-Wolf, D. (2014) ‘Semantic Web Technologies Applied to Numismatic Collections in Archaeology in the Digital Era’ Papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012’