Digging up the Past? Come and discover more about your finds
Find out whether the piece of flint you found while gardening is a Stone Age arrowhead or how old the coin you found metal detecting is.
Thanks to Warwickshire County Council’s Museum and Library Services, budding archaeologists and amateur collectors alike can get help identifying their finds at a FREE session at Nuneaton Library on Wednesday 25 November from 12-2pm.
Archaeologist Tom Brindle of the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be on hand to help you identify and record your finds, with advice on cleaning and storage.
The local community is being encouraged to bring in old objects such as pottery, flint or metal items which may have been found while walking, farming, gardening, or metal detecting. These items, which often date back over 300 years, are important in terms of unlocking the past.
Sara Wear, Keeper of Archaeology at Warwickshire County Council, said: “This finds identification event is a great opportunity for people to find out more about their local area and the objects they have found. There have been some wonderful discoveries around Nuneaton and Bedworth including Stone Age tools and Iron Age coins.”
The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales.
Warwickshire and Worcestershire County Councils work in partnership to support the scheme locally. For further information log onto http://www.finds.org.uk.