Research Catalog

Title

A decade of discovery : proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007 / edited by Sally Worrell [and others].

Author

Portable Antiquities Scheme (Great Britain). Conference (2007 : British Museum)

Publication

Oxford, England : Archaeopress : Available from Hadrian Books, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Worrell, Sally.
• British Museum.

Description

vi, 240 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR British series ; 520

Uniform Title

BAR British series ; 520.

Alternative Title

Proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007

Subjects

• Cultural property > Protection > Wales > Congresses
• Archäologie
• Cultural property > Protection > England > Congresses
• London (2007)
• Archaeology and state > England > Congresses
• England > Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Congresses
• Wales > Antiquities > Congresses
• Portable Antiquities Scheme (Great Britain) Congresses
• Großbritannien
• Archaeology and state > Wales > Congresses
• Wales > Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Congresses
• Kongress
• England > Antiquities > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Kongress.
• London (2007)

Note

• Includes papers from the Portable Antiquities Scheme's 10th-anniversary conference, held 17-18 April 2007 at the British Museum, together with a number of other contributions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Roger Bland -- The Portable Antiquities Scheme's database : its development for research since 1998 / Daniel E.J. Pett -- The Portable Antiquities Scheme : the contribution of lithics and lithic scatters / Clive Jonathon Bond -- Metal detecting rallies and landscape archaeology : recreating lost landscapes on the Berkshire Downs / Kate Sumnall and Paula Levick -- An assessment of the archaeological research dividends of the Portable Antiquities Scheme : a case study of Bronze Age metalwork from East Anglia / Nisha Doshi -- Celtic art, GIS analysis and the Portable Antiquities Scheme / Duncan Garrow -- New evidence for Iron Age sword strap fasteners identified by PAS / Liz Andrews-Wilson -- Iron Age Warwickshire : has the Portable Antiquities Scheme made a difference? / Angie Bolton -- Changing objects in changing worlds : dragonesque brooches and beaded torcs / Fraser Hunter -- The cult of Totatis : evidence for tribal identity in mid-Roman Britain / Adam Daubney -- The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Roman rural settlement : some preliminary work on Wiltshire / Tom Brindle -- Portable antiquities in the Roman frontier / Rob Collins -- Expanding the frontiers : how the Portable Antiquities Scheme database increases knowledge of Roman coin use in England / Sam Moorhead -- Early Anglo-Saxon brooches in southern England : the contribution of the Portable Antiquities Scheme / Laura McLean -- Beyond the tribal hidage : using portable antiquities to explore early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in southern England / Sue Harrington and Martin Welch -- The changing face of saucer-brooch distribution, 1912-1977-1997-2007 / Tania Dickinson -- A "productive" site at Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire : salt, communication and trade in Anglo-Saxon England / John Naylor and Julian D. Richards -- Medieval copper-alloy mace-heads from England, Scotland and Wales / Adam Daubney -- Widespread devotion : new insights from the Portable Antiquities Scheme into medieval pilgrim trinkets / Geoff Egan -- Personal and impersonal impressions : identity revealed through seals / John Cherry -- Searching with a fine-toothed comb : combs for humans and horses on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database / Steven P. Ashby and Angie Bolton.

ISBN

• 9781407307237 (pbk.)
• 1407307231 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocn701279610
• 701279610
• SCSB-5686083

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries