The Portable Antiquities Scheme’s database holds records of artefacts and coins found by the public, whilst pursuing a wide range of activities (the majority from metal detecting). The records are made available with differing levels of information, depending on the user account level. The Scheme is very willing to give research access to bona fide researchers.
Since March 2010, the database has now incorporated two very substantial corpora of numismatic data: the Oxford University Celtic Coin Index (denoted by the CCI identifier) and Cardiff University’s Iron Age and Roman coins of Wales project (denoted by the IARCW identifier). These data enhance and complement the data that the Scheme has collected. It should be noted that the information gleaned from them has been imported from a differing data model, and so images and inscriptions aren’t always available.
The half a million objects recorded mark was reached on March 21st 2010.
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