Ben Westwood, Finds Liaison Officer for Durham, Darlington & Teesside, has responded on Twitter to my earlier post about the silver s...

On Friday (7 August) Peter Reavill, a Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) for the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), posted a long article which ...

Back in November 2019, I noticed a somewhat awkward description of a Roman object on the PAS database ( SOM-EFC2F3 ). Although the object ...

Ha! That was an interesting outcome. Paul Barford, an archaeologist, highlighted a recent Twitter announcement by Jo Ahmet, the Finds Lia...

While idly exploring the database of the UK's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) I came across this entry for a pottery lamp supposedl...

It is clear that the controversial  pastime of metal detecting in the UK, even in cases where finds have been officially reported, has occ...

As an addendum to my previous post outlining a few changes that I would like to see in the way metal detecting is approached, I would urg...

Continuing on from my previous blog post about a debate on conservation , here is a copy of my latest comment sent to Andy Baines's bl...

When Paul Barford lamented the fate of the almost one million artefacts recorded by the PAS (" Where have Eleven Million Objects Gone...

Now a season of rock festivals and other general summer debauchery has abated, it's time to add a little to my blog ... A couple of...

In recent examinations ( here and here ) of the database used by the UK's Portable Antiquities Scheme ( PAS ) to record archaeologi...

I see John Howland, a metal detectorist who I mentioned in an earlier post , has kindly included me in distinguished company in a comment to...

Peter Tompa has left this reply to my post ... David, thank you for your comment, but the question is not whether metal detectorists do...

I very briefly submitted a blog post about the polarised camps in the debate on looting back in February 2009. I removed it and stored it as...