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CELTIC COIN INDEX DIGITAL (CCID) goes live!

The School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, is pleased to announce the launch of the website: Celtic Coin Index Digital (CCID). The CCID is an online archive that provides access to one of the world’s largest datasets of Iron Age coins in Britain: the Celtic Coin Index (CCI). The CCI has been housed in the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford since 1964. The paper card index now holds nearly 85,000 records of around 68,000 specimens of Iron Age coins – these cards and their related images and data are now available on the CCID website.

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Work­shop sem­inar on metal-de­tect­ing and her­it­age man­age­ment in the Nordic countries

A workshop on Future directions in audience engagement for heritage management organizations is to be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland on 2nd-3rd June 2022 (10:00-15:30 EET).

From Treasure Hunters to Citizen Scientists workshop seminar series aims to examine the various citizen science and heritage management challenges presented by metal-detecting, specifically through engagement and consultation with diverse audiences and stake-holder groups specifically in the Nordic countries.

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Conference – Crossing Frontiers: the Evidence of Roman Coin Hoards

“Crossing Frontiers: the Evidence of Roman Coin Hoards” will take place at All Souls College, Oxford on 21-22 April 2022.

This conference is organised by the Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project (https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk) and has been generously funded by the Augustus Foundation.

It will be organised as a hybrid event, and you can register for online participation here:

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