188体育

Annual statistics of the number of objects of treasure and portable antiquities in England and Wales in 2008 produced by the British Museum on behalf of DCMS were released on 23 July 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Last release date: November 2009 ()

Period covered: January to December 2008

Geographic coverage: England, Wales and Northern Ireland for treasure and England and Wales for portable antiquities

Next release date: Statistics from 2009 will be published in the first quarter of 2011

Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs) record finds of treasure and portable antiquities on the . The statistics gathered from the database together with further details of the objects found have previously been published annually in the

Report structure/format

The report sets out the latest annual figures for the 12 months to December 2008. It also presents objects recorded by geographical area and by period and category of find. The report is available in聽rtf and pdf format.

• (PDF 132kb)

• 聽(RTF 524kb)

• 聽(Excel 35kb)
• 聽(Excel 22kb)

Key messages

• In 2008 806 finds of Treasure were reported.
• In 2008 53,346 finds were recorded on the .
• In 2008 82 parties waived their right to a reward in 51 cases of Treasure, allowing them to be acquired by museums at no (or reduced) public cost.

Pre-release access

The document below contains a list of Ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release of Treasure and Portable Antiquities data. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

• (PDF 10kb)

Contact for enquiries:

Department for Culture, Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London SW1Y 5DH
Email: [email protected]

The responsible analyst for this release is Peter Antonaides
For enquiries on this release contact: 020 7211 6188
For general enquiries telephone: 020 7211 6000