A Decade of Discovery: Proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007 9781407307237, 9781407321912

Table of contents :
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Foreword
The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s Database: its development for research since 1998
The Portable Antiquities Scheme: the contribution of lithics and lithic scatters
Metal Detecting Rallies and Landscape Archaeology: recreating lost landscapes on the Berkshire Downs
An Assessment of the Archaeological Research Dividends of the Portable Antiquities Scheme: a case study of Bronze Age metalwork from East Anglia
Celtic Art, GIS Analysis and the Portable Antiquities Scheme
New Evidence for Iron Age Sword Strap Fasteners Identified by PAS
Iron Age Warwickshire: has the Portable Antiquities Scheme made a difference?
Changing Objects in Changing Worlds: dragonesque brooches and beaded torcs
The Cult of Totatis: evidence for tribal identity in mid Roman Britain
The Portable Antiquities Scheme and Roman Rural Settlement: some preliminary work on Wiltshire
Portable Antiquities in the Roman Frontier
Expanding the Frontiers: how the Portable Antiquities Scheme database increases knowledge of Roman coin use in England
Early Anglo-Saxon Brooches in Southern England: the contribution of the Portable Antiquities Scheme
Beyond the Tribal Hidage: using portable antiquities to explore early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in southern England
The Changing Face of Saucer-brooch Distribution, 1912 - 1977 - 1997 - 2007
A ‘Productive Site’ at Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire: salt, communication and trade in Anglo-Saxon England
Medieval Copper-alloy Mace-heads from England, Scotland and Wales
Widespread Devotion: new insights from the Portable Antiquities Scheme into medieval pilgrim trinkets
Personal and Impersonal Impressions: identity revealed through seals
Searching with a Fine-toothed Comb: combs for humans and horses on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database

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BAR 520 2010

A Decade of Discovery Proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007

WORRELL, EGAN, NAYLOR, LEAHY & LEWIS (Eds)

Edited by

Sally Worrell Geoff Egan John Naylor Kevin Leahy Michael Lewis

A DECADE OF DISCOVERY

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BAR British Series 520 2010

A Decade of Discovery Proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007

Edited by

Sally Worrell Geoff Egan John Naylor Kevin Leahy Michael Lewis

BAR British Series 520 2010

Published in 2016 by BAR Publishing, Oxford BAR British Series 520 A Decade of Discovery © The editors and contributors severally and the Publisher 2010 The authors' moral rights under the 1988 UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act are hereby expressly asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied, reproduced, stored, sold, distributed, scanned, saved in any form of digital format or transmitted in any form digitally, without the written permission of the Publisher.

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