Chance Archaeology and Metal Detector Finds

If you have discovered an unusual object, Winchester Museums' experts can provide a free identification service. Bring the object to theCity Museum, where the specialist staff will try to identify it, and where possible provide you with additional information. Alternatively e-mail an image to museums@winchester.gov.uk. We will inform you when our research has been completed, and when you can collect your object. We do not give commercial valuations.

All the finds identified that qualify will be recorded onto the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database. For further information please follow this link www.finds.org.uk

In the latest e-Newsletter 'Review 5' Robin Iles describes an intriguing item, a lekythos, kept in an old shoe box and, possibly, well-connected.
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Latest: 14,000th record was created today ( 25 January 2010) for Hampshire - this equates to over 18,000 finds through which you are rewriting the history of the county - keep them coming!

For further information about the Portable Antiquities Scheme please contact Rob Webley, Finds Liaison Officer for Hampshire