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Links and Bibliographic Resources for Roman Finds Research

Portable Antiquities Scheme

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a DCMS-funded project which records the thousands of objects found every year by the public in England and Wales. Their website www.finds.org.uk hosts their extremely useful, searchable database of artefacts, as well as object guides, news items and interesting blogs.

Artefacts ©, Online Encyclopaedia of Archaeological Small Finds.

An increasingly good resource to use for identification and research purposes is artefacts.mom.fr which currently lists more than 288,000 small finds in its database. It also provides a bibliography of 14,282 titles, of which 3,984 are available online (27.89%) as PDF files. Users can create distribution maps of selected objects and join a forum to discuss finds or ask for help with identification. Much is in French, but there is no problem in posting in English either (translation of object pages is currently done automatically via Google Translate, which can sometimes result in some slightly odd turns of phrase).

Academia.edu

Academia.edu is a platform to enable sharing of academic research. Papers are presented on a variety of subjects; search within ‘archaeology’ by area of interest or object type.

Research gate

A similar resource to Academia is www.researchgate.net, where users can generate DOIs for their titles.

Instrumentum

Instrumentum is a European working group on crafts in Antiquity. Their website www.instrumentum-europe.org includes an excellent bibliography. RFG Members can receive discounted membership to Instrumentum; click here for details.

Zenon

The German Archaeological Institute publish an annual bibliography called Zenon (zenon.dainst.org). It lists the holdings of all the libraries which are part of the German Archaeological Institute and its departments worldwide as well as links to the British School at Athens and some other institutions.

Other Special Interest Groups

Lithic Studies Society – Promoting research into flint and stone tools.
Later Prehistoric Finds Group – Promoting interest in prehistoric artefacts, especially finds from the Bronze and Iron Ages.
The Finds Research Group – Promoting the study of post-Roman artefacts.
Association for the History of Glass – Advancing knowledge, education and interest in the study of glass of all periods.
Archaeological Leather Group – Promoting the study of leather and leather objects from archaeological contexts.
Historical Metallurgy Society – Promoting the exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy.
Worked Bone Research Group – The official working group of International Council for Archaeozoology.
Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group – Assisting pottery specialists, other archaeologists and members of the public to keep in touch with current research in prehistoric pottery.
Study Group for Roman Pottery – A group to further the study of pottery of the Roman period in Britain.
Medieval Pottery Research Group – Promoting the study of pottery from the post-Roman period to the 19th Century.
Institute for Archaeologists Finds Group – Promoting finds work constructively within the structure of professional archaeology.

Other Sites of Interest

Museums online