II. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Abstract

2018 marks the twenty-first anniversary of the establishment of the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 1997 as an initiative to record archaeological objects found by members of the general public. Initially set up in pilot form, in 2003 it was extended to the whole of England and Wales. 1 Surveys of Roman period finds recorded by the PAS have been published in Britannia since 2004. This fifteenth annual report summarises the general character and distribution of Roman finds reported in 2017 and publishes significant individual artefacts recorded by Finds Liaison Officers. 2 J. Pearce and S. Worrell, 'Roman Britain in 2016 II. Finds reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme', Britannia 48 (2017), 427. The quantities of individual finds can be calculated by manipulating the data available on the PAS website (www.finds.org.uk). 3 Hoards continue to be published in full through the Coin Hoards of Roman Britain series, as well as the individual coins being reported on the PAS database. PAS hoard data have been used for the now complete collaborative project on hoarding between the British Museum and the University of Leicester 'Crisis or Continuity. Hoarding in Iron Age and Roman Britain with special reference to the 3rd century AD'