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- Portable Antiquities - CBA guide to portable antiquities, metal detecting and archaeology.
- Portable Antiquities Scheme - A government-backed scheme for the recording of finds in England and Wales. Includes a database containing information on c.9,000 archaeological finds with c.600 images.
- Archaeological Leather Group - Promotes the study of leather and leather objects from archaeological and other contexts. Newsletter, committee, publications, bibliography and meetings calendar.
- Worcestershire Pottery Home - The Worcestershire on-line fabric type series is the first part of Pottery in Perspective, an innovative project to provide information on the pottery used, and made, in Worcestershire from prehistory to c 1900CE.
- Archaeological Dig Unearths Roman Army Treasures - The Guardian reports the discovery in Carlisle of a Roman armory workshop with weapons and some of the best-preserved armor ever discovered.
- Roman Carving Unearthed at Fort - Archaeologists hail the discovery of a Roman carving at Segontium in north Wales as the most significant find at the site for 30 years. From BBC News.
- Gold Coin Hoard Unveiled - BBC News announced that rare mint condition Roman coins found in London go on show at the Museum of London.
- Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani - The British Academy describes its cataloguing of Romano-British sculpture by area. Lists of volumes published.
- Saxon Jewel Fit for Princess Unearthed - The Guardian reports that a late 7th-century brooch made of copper and delicately worked gold, studded with Indian garnets, goes on show at the Museum of London.
- The Archaeology of the Clay Tobacco Pipe - An article by Craig Cessford from Assemblage, with references and bibliography.
Wikipedia Articles
- Portable Antiquities Scheme - The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme was begun in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales.