Tag: Portable Antiquities Scheme

• Lost money: Roman coins found in England, reign by reign

  

  275,206 Roman coins recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme, mapped district by district and reign by reign. The coin curve is the classic one. The map of it is a step, not a slope.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories, Games & other interests

  Animated timeline, archaeology, Britain, Coins and hoards, England, industry, Metal detecting, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Roman, Romans

• Did Detectorists start a boom?

  

  A gentle BBC comedy is often credited with getting Britain out detecting. Twenty-two years of UK searches and Portable Antiquities Scheme finds say it made a splash, not a wave.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  archaeology, Before and after test, Britain, Film and television, Google Trends and Books, Metal detecting, Portable Antiquities Scheme, Present day, UK