Extracts from the report.
The shortest month of the year saw a steady number of finds for recording and Treasure for reporting with the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Thank you to all of the finders for coming forward with their discoveries in February. This is a broad overview of the Scheme’s work on finds recording and treasure processing in the past month, with a few additional highlights. As usual there were many more activities going on around the country.
There were 107 Treasure cases from England reported this month. 18 cases were paid for and acquired by museums through the Treasure process. This included a hoard (NARC-49A445) of 47 axeheads and five pieces of casting waste dating from the Middle Bronze Age (c.1500-1150 BC) found in Deanshanger, Northamptonshire, which was acquired by Northampton Museum after an extended period of fundraising.
Many thanks to the two finders for their patience; it is great that this important collection of prehistoric material will be in public ownership.
