UK DETECTOR NET Forum

The launch today of the Portable Antiquities and Treasure annual reports show that 97,509 finds were recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 2011 (an 8% rise on the previous year) and 970 Treasure cases were reported in the same period (up by 12%)..........................

http://finds.org.uk/news/stories/article/id/243

All very encouraging

As most of you will know, they no longer publish the Telephone Directory sized
catalogues as in previous years.
It's now a more compact 30 page A4 sized booklet. Still a good read though.

Where is the catalogue of the finds themselves, did I miss it?

You needed to click on the Portable Antiquities in blue Pete and click on download in blue, it's here;

http://finds.org.uk/documents/annualrep ... 0-2011.pdf

I notice they have included Pops's Strap Union, Tom's Ringerike Harness Pendant and PaulR's Will Russell Hawking Vervell, well found folks There may be others off UKDN too

Thanks Phil

Thanks for the link phil,interesting read,cheers edd.

got mine ystdy. like the old better/ more info. got full set of old ones. wont be parting with them at any sad story. yahoo.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/0 ... ure-troves

Strange thing about the Portable Antiquities Scheme is:

As it is mostly (but not all) to do with finds made by metal detectorists, it
still has it's detractors in both the amateur and professional archaeological
community.

I have posted the above link on a couple of what I would loosely term,
amateur archaeological websites I frequently post on, and it has drawn
no comments whatsoever. I guess, because although they can obviously
see the benefits of the scheme, they still wont openly admit that
detectorists make many finds which add to our understanding of the past.