Recording public archaeological discovery in a democratic manner.

dpett@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Objects by year

449,359 objects online @ 23:20 26/2/10 – 400K in 7 years!

Research in progress

23 PhDs - 3 based at UCL

6 AHRC projects - 1 at UCL

36 Masters

18 Undergraduates

12 internal

24 personal research

You could join these researchers - ask me afterwards

All PAS records mapped using GIS

New database built in house

2 servers cost £7,000 Server consultancy cost £2,000 No other money spent

Enhanced geo data via flickr shapefiles & Yahoo! geoplanet

Dots colours indicate workflow stage – green ones are fully verified.

Omphalos base and

indentations can be seen

New functions – data sourcing for enhancement

Uses wide range of 3rd party data sources

Extensive data revisions

Linked data

If errors found

can feedback and we get the

benefit. No duplication of

efforts!

Draw in data from dbpedia for reuse

Pull data from our database and the BM collections online to teach numismatics

Parliamentary data via Hansard

• Can find out if an MP or Peer has ever spoken

about archaeology

• Can find all archaeological monuments and public discoveries in their constituency's

bounding box

• We can approach those who haven’t been

supportive of the Scheme or archaeology if their

area is highly productive • We can raise our political profile!

• Any other heritage body can use this as a tool!

Guardian news articles about PAS Create a searchable archive of stories

Rurality of coin distributions?

PhD student at the Institute comparing static data from PAS, HERs and coin hoard reports to produce a synthesised map to update Richard Reece’s study of Roman coin finds. This will change our knowledge of Roman Britain to a ruralised landscape.

This is obviously Stonehenge, and no we don’t have any recorded metal

detector activity here. The above just demonstrates the Google Earth plugin on our new database. If you’re interested this is WOEID 26351828 and is 87

metres above sea level.

We can limit zoom interface Obfuscate the findspot

Variety of formats to view

Flickr love

The end. Visit our new website from 1st week in April

@ www.finds.org.uk

Contact me: dpett@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk