IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 204: Sense from Chaos: Aspects of Portable Antiquities, II
Monday 13 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Portable Antiquities Scheme |
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Organiser: | Geoff Egan, Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum, London |
Moderator/Chair: | Michael John Lewis, Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum, London |
Paper 204-a | Unlovely and Unloved: Anglo-Saxon Lead Jewellery (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Religious Life |
Paper 204-b | Profiling South Lincolnshire: A Survey of New Sites and Finds (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Religious Life |
Paper 204-c | Yorkshire beyond the Towns: Finds from the Shires and Wolds (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Religious Life |
Abstract | The Portable Antiquities Scheme is in its 12th year of recording onto its Database medieval and other finds reported by members of the public. With over 350,000 objects now having detailed records, synthesis is timely. This session will look at aspects of mainly rural finds from the North and other regions. The basic question of how the material culture recorded in this way relates to that from formal excavations in the areas selected will be considered, and case studies of formerly obscure objects (now much more extensively represented than from formal fieldwork) will be presented. |