The Portable Antiquities Scheme
Inspired by this post I've been taking a look at the and concerns over it's current level of funding. The scheme has been a huge success allowing metal detectorists and members of the public to report archaelogical finds to a national database. But for 2008/9 there's no increase in the scheme's funding and that is worrying some people who say it may mean cuts in the project. Here are two roughly edited longer interviews that made up the package that ran on the issue on today's PM: who oversees the PAS, and Roy Clare, Chief Executive of the the body which, under current plans, funds the scheme. The interviews run sequentially in the player - hit the forward button on the player to move on.
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