PAStCast - Podcast from the Portable Antiquities Scheme Portable Antiquities Scheme

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

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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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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)