PAStCast - Podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Join us for a fabulous BONUS episode celebrating England's historic final in the European championship! Never ones to be shy of jumping on a bandwagon, Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham)discuss England and Italy related finds, plus the ONLY footballer on the PAS database! finds: Harness mount: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1030698 Soldino: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1026087 and see this search: https://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/q/soldino/denominationName/Soldino and the footballer badge:https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/792228

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS Series 2 Episode 5: Law and Order: Special Objects Unit… Episode 5 of our continuing journey through Shakespeare’s ‘7 Ages of Man’ [and Women!] brings us to the Justice, and where better to discuss a few objects linked to crime and (a lot of) punishment! We’ll also be taking the opportunity to take a little look at the ethics of antiquities collecting. Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) are joined by a very special guest Dr Adam Daubney. Ex-FLO in Lincolnshire, and now independent finds specialist extraordinaire, Adam has written extensively on the ethics of portable antiquities. He also tells us the story of a very interesting hoard of Spanish doubloons Finds mentioned week: Devon Constabulary police button: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1026734# Toy handcuffs: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/975903# Romano-British shackles: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/246137# Hoard of Spanish-American escudos (Doubloons!) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/386995 Bibliography: Daubney, A., 2017. Floating culture: the unrecorded antiquities of England and Wales. International Journal of Heritage Studies 1–15. Grove, L., Daubney, A., Booth, A., 2018. Identifying sites at risk from illicit metal detecting. International Journal of Heritage Studies 24, 1038–1052. Wiseman, R., Neil, B., Mazzilli, F. Extreme Justice: Decapitations and Prone Burials in Three Late Roman Cemeteries at Knobb’s Farm, Cambridgeshire. Britannia 1–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X21000064 (music credit: Lukrembo – Bread)

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS Series 2 Episode 4: Military Matters! Episode 4 of our continuing journey through Shakespeare’s ‘7 Ages of Man’ [and Women!] brings us to the soldier, and so we’re turning to all things martial and military in this episode. Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk about military artefacts and weapons on the PAS database, and discuss THAT Roman cavalry helmet with our very special guest Dr Mike Bishop. Mike has both figuratively and literally written the book on Roman Military Equipment (you can access his extensive bibliography on his website: https://www.mcbishop.co.uk/writing/), and it was a pleasure to talk to him! Finds mentioned week: Bronze Age Spearhead: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1027365 Eggleston Bronze Age hoard: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/969299 Crosby Garett Helmet: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/404767 Bibliography: Anderson, K., 2011. Slashing and thrusting with Late Bronze Age spears: analysis and experiment. Antiquity 85, 599–612. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00067983 Bishop, M.C., Coulston, J.C., 2009. Roman military equipment: from the Punic Wars to the fall of Rome. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Breeze, D.J., Bishop, M.C., 2013. The Crosby Garrett Helmet. Armatura Press, for Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery. Peltonen, M., 2003. ‘Civilized with death’: Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England, in: Early Modern Civil Discourses. Springer, pp. 51–67. (available here: https://www.shakespeare4alltime.com/uploads/4/1/8/1/4181397/the_duel_in_elizabeths_reign_-_civilized_with_death.pdf) Tracey, J., 2012. New Evidence for Iron Age Burial and Propitiation Practices in Southern Britain. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 31, 367–379. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.2012.00393.x (music credit: Lukrembo – Bread)

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS Series 2 Episode 3: It Must Be Love! In episode 3 of this series journey through Shakespeare’s ‘7 Ages of Man’ [and Women!] we’ve reached young adulthood and love and romance (although, as we know romance isn’t just for the young…). Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk about Loving and Affection in the archaeological record and are joined by a very special guest...

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS Episode 2 of Series 2: The Happiest Days of your life… For episode 2 of this series we’ve moved on to the “whining school-boy, with his satchel “! Yes, we’re going back to school, which some call ‘The Happiest Days of your life”, while for others it’s more like Shakespeare puts it: “Unwillingly to school…”. Hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk about childhood and...

PAStCast! [The original and the best…] The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS ….and WE’RE BACK!!! Episode 1 of Series 2! For this series we’ve decided on a theme to guide us, and you, through some of the fantastic artefacts on our database. We’ve adopted a loose structure from Shakespeare’s famous ‘All the world's a stage’ monologue in ‘As You Like It‘: The ‘Seven Ages of Man’ (and, of course, Woman. Conkey and Spector even get a mention in this episode, and you can find...

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS ….and this is the Final Episode of this series!! (But don’t worry, we’ll be back soon) In episode 6 hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk about how important volunteering is to the PAS, and about our HLF funded PAStExplorers volunteer project! We're honoured to be joined by two fantastic PAS volunteers, Julia and Ann, who discuss their experiences volunteering...

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS! In episode 5 hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) talk Roman Coins! We're joined in this episode a REAL expert, Dr Andrew Brown from the British Museum's Coins and Medals Dept. As well as being a Former FLO himself, Andrew is also a 'Finds Advisor' to the PAS for Iron Age and Roman coins! Naturally, this weeks finds in focus are Roman coins, 4 of them! Semis:...

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS! In episode 4 hosts we get to the PRETTY stuff (and we're not *just* talking about hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham)) We're joined in this episode by one of the Treasure Registrars, Amy Marsh, to discuss 'All that Glitters' (and quite a lot that doesn't). This weeks object in focus is of course a Treasure find, and not just *any* Treasure find but one with magical...

PAStCast! The podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme - the PAS. In this very special BONUS episode hosts Lucy Shipley (Finds Liaison Officer, or FLO, in Devon) and Ben Westwood (FLO in Durham) are joined by the head of the PAS and Treasure Professor Michael Lewis! We're discussing the release of this year's PAS Annual Report, and some of the very special objects recorded with the scheme during 2019 (and the all important 'cover star'). The 2019 PAS Report can be downloaded from our...

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:...

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...

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:...