Welcome to the Portable Antiquities Scheme's 2025 conference - Metal Detector Finds: Collaboration, Research, Display. Join us at the Museum of Liverpool for a day filled with presentations and discussions centred around metal detector finds.
The day will be divided into three sessions, Collaboration, Research and Display:
Collaboration will delve into projects that have been triggered by metal detector discoveries and will explore examples of archaeologists and detectorists working together.
Research will look into examples of ongoing research into metal detector discoveries and how we're able to continue to learn about our past through conservation, science and data scrutiny.
Display will illustrate three very different examples of how metal detector finds are displayed, including from the finders themselves.
Our speakers for the day are:
- In Search of Roman Rural Settlement – the contribution of responsible metal detecting in filling the void - Caroline Pudney, University of Chester & Susie White, PAS Cymru
- Treasure Trove Unit’s work with the detecting community: A case study of recent coin hoard excavations from Scotland - Carl Savage, Treasure Trove Unit, National Museum Scotland
- The Willersey sword hoard: Discovery and excavation - Kurt Adams, PAS and Glenn Manning, metal detectorist
- Collaboration in Action: the excavation and conservation of the Melsonby Hoards - Emily Williams, Durham University
- Reformation and Recusancy in the Northeast: new insights on forgotten stories - Ben Westwood and Caroline Smith, PAS
- An Iron-Age to Post-Roman Landscape on the Berkshire Downs - John Naylor, Ashmolean Museum & PAS
- Treasures Unearthed 2025: An Exhibition of Metal Detecting Discoveries - Dave Edwards, Metal Detectorist on behalf of the NCMD NW Clubs
- Lost and Found: Small Finds, Big Conversations - Alexandria Mapp, PAS
- Curating ‘Treasure: History Unearthed’ - Vanessa Oakden, Museum of Liverpool
