UK's Successful System Brings Thousands of New Finds to Light Each Year

With thousands of finds reported in the UK each year, the amateur discoveries are increasingly being viewed as an important source for the fuller understanding the past. Finds Liason Officers are building structured relationships with metal detectorists and field walkers; find locations are being carefully logged and recorded ensuring our archaeology doesn’t merely disappear into private collections.

Now the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), the voluntary recording scheme for many of these archaeological objects and finds, has organised a series of ‘finds roadshows’ with the aim of enticing more members of the public into bringing their discoveries in for appraisal by the scheme's Finds Liaison Officers. 

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