PASt Explorers Conference 2019

The Future is PASt: Celebrating finds recording in the local community

Join us to celebrate the work of the PASt Explorers project, supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with a series of talks looking at what the project has achieved, how this work is being used to inform our knowledge of the past, and the vast potential for future projects.

The conference will be followed by a drinks reception with stand-up comedy from Paul Duncan McGarrity, the man behind the brilliant Ask An Archaeologist podcast series.

The event is fully catered so please inform us of any special dietary requirements.

Full access information including details of lifts and accessible toilets can be found here: https://www.britishmuseum.org/visiting/access.aspx. If you have any specific requirements, please contact the event organiser.

Contact details for event organiser:

Lauren Speed

lspeed@britishmuseum.org

0207 323 8293

Programme:

Registration from 10:15-10:55

11:00 - Welcome

11:15 - Great than the sum of its parts: Citizen archaeology advancing archaeological knowledge, Professor Carenza Lewis (Universty of Lincoln)

11:45 - "Here be Dragons": How to draw beautiful maps and interpret them, Dr. Adam Daubney (Portable Antiquities Scheme)

12:15 - Patterns of discovery: material culture in medieval Northumbria, Dr. David Petts (University of Durham)

12:45-13:45 - Lunch

13:45 - A little bit of Leicestershire: Questions from the PASt, Dr. Phil Harding (Portable Antiquities Scheme)

14:15 - Coinage, landscape and society inthe borderlands: economy, politics and identity in Scotland and northern England, 1136-1603, Carl Savage (Portable Antiquities Scheme and University of York)

14:45 - Break

15:15 - Making the difference: PAS volunteers take Roman coins over the 300,000 mark!, Dr. Sam Moorhead and Dr. Andrew Brown (Portable Antiquities Scheme and British Museum)

16:00-18:30 - drinks reception with stand-up comedy from Paul Duncan McGarrity at 17:00.