PAStCast!

The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS!

In episode 2 our hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) discuss Taphonomy - or how objects get in the ground and what happens to them.

This weeks object in focus, a medieval harness mount, was chosen by Lucy (link to the object in the PAS database):

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/930058

Texts mentioned:

Bradley, R. 1990. The Passage of Arms: An Archaeological Analysis of Prehistoric Hoards and Votive Deposits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ashley, S., 2002. Medieval armorial horse furniture in Norfolk, EAA report. Archaeology and Environment Division, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, Norfolk. (this is the free download one! Go to: http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report101/ )

(music credit: https://soundcloud.com/lukrembo/bread)