PAStCast!

The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS.

In episode 3 hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) are [finally] joined by a very special guest: Ellie Cox, the FLO for Northamptonshire!

We discuss with Ellie all things FLO related, the ups and down of FLO life and her most controversial archaeological opinion.....

This weeks object in focus is actually 'objects', three of them!

We have two Iron Age coins:

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/734146

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1001267

And a fabulous early medieval silver and gold Sword Pommel chosen by Ellie:

https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/973069

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

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)

PAStCast!

The first podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS!

In episode 1 we introduce the PAS and ourselves, hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham.

We also discuss a very special archaeological object found exactly equidistant between us!

Link to the object in the PAS database:

HESH-BDE9A6: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/433417

Links to blog posts about the mysterious 'Hexham Heads':

part 1: https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/the-hexham-heads-part-1-the-discovery/

part 2: https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/the-hexham-heads-part-2-tested-and-contested/

...and the Binchester Head:

https://rogueclassicism.com/2013/07/04/possible-head-of-antenociticus-near-binchester-roman-fort/

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