We believe that volunteering for the Portable Antiquities Scheme is an interesting and rewarding experience. As well as the social aspect that comes with being part of a team, our volunteers also gain knowledge, experience and new skills. Many of our volunteers have gone onto careers in the heritage sector – in fact, several of …more
Category: Volunteering
Calling all PAS volunteers!
We still have some places for speakers at the 2017 PASt Explorers conference Telling Tales in Cardiff, so if any volunteers are interested, please get in touch with Claire (ccostin@britishmuseum.org) ASAP. We would like our volunteers to tell the stories behind an object(s) recorded with the PAS. This can be something you have recorded yourself, something you …more
Rutland County Pages launched!
We’re pleased to announce the launch of our Rutland County Pages. Rutland is our smallest county but it is packed with archaeology, from the Upper Palaeolithic hyena den to coin hoards from the civil war. Learn more about visiting Rutland’s heritage sites or explore archaeological finds from Rutland reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Wendy Scott …more
20,000 Self-recorded Database Records
A landmark has been reached this week with the addition of the 20,000th record on the PAS database recorded under a PUBLIC- prefix. The facility to record your own finds directly onto the PAS database has been around since March 2010, and to have reached this total in just over six years is remarkable. I …more
Introduction to the Festive Finds: PAS Christmas Countdown
Introduction to the Festive Finds Starting on Sunday 13th December and running for 12 days, a series of blogs entitled ‘Festive Finds’ will be posted onto the County Pages of the PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme) database. Each day a new festive object from the database will be discussed, along with the history and wider context …more
PAS Volunteer Conference – 23rd November 2015
We are delighted to announce that the Portable Antiquities Scheme’s 2015 conference celebrates the launch of PASt Explorers, the Scheme’s five year Heritage Lottery Funded project to recruit and train volunteers from local communities, increasing the capacity of the PAS to record archaeological objects found by members of the public. This conference aims to illustrate how …more
Jack – Volunteers’ Week 2015
To mark national Volunteers’ Week 2015, PAS volunteers were invited to contribute a blog post to the new County Pages about their experiences of volunteering for the Scheme. This post was written by Jack Coulthard, a metal detectorist in Leeds who volunteers in the Wakefield office of Amy Downes, the Finds Liaison Officer for South and West …more
Tom – Volunteers’ Week 2015
To mark national Volunteers’ Week 2015, PAS volunteers were invited to contribute a blog post to the new County Pages about their experiences of volunteering for the Scheme. This post was written by Tom Redmayne, an independent metal detectorist and self-recorder from Lincolnshire who records his own finds onto the PAS database with the assistance …more
William – Volunteers’ Week 2015
To mark national Volunteers’ Week 2015, PAS volunteers were invited to contribute a blog post to the new County Pages about their experiences of volunteering for the Scheme. This post was written by William Aldington, an independent detectorist and self-recorder from Cheshire who records his own finds onto the PAS database with the assistance of Vanessa …more
National Volunteers’ Week 2015
In preparation for the launch of the County Pages, we invited our volunteers to contribute a series of blog posts about the fantastic work they do for the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) to mark Volunteers’ Week (1st – 7th June 2015), a national celebration of the volunteer sector run by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO). We asked our volunteers to …more
