PAStCast - Podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

About PAStCast - Podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a project to encourage the voluntary recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales. It is run by the British Museum and by Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museums Wales.

Publisher

Portable Antiquities Scheme

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Jun 2021

Latest episode

9 Jul 2021

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jul 2021

   BONUS EURO FINALS FOOTBALL EPISODE!

   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

2. 

   30 Jun 2021

   S2e5: Law and Order: Special Objects Unit

   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)

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   2 Jun 2021

   S2E4: Military Matters!

   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)

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