Portable Antiquities Scheme "Feelgood Statistics"

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The Portable Antiquities Scheme has produced its annual "wottalotta-stuff-we-got" feelgood statistics. Whooppee.  The number of objects recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme  January 2011 to December 2011 in England and Wales has been gathered by the British Museum on behalf of DCMS. The report is available in rtf and pdf format.

• Statistical release for treasure (2010 figures) and portable antiquities (figures for 2011) (PDF 235kb)
• Statistical release for treasure (2010 figures) and portable antiquities (figures for 2011) (RTF 1mb)
• Table D: Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) finds in 2011 objects recorded by county (geographical distribution) (CSV)
• Table E: PAS finds in 2011 recorded by class (where known) (CSV)
• Table F: PAS finds in 2011 recorded by period (where known) (CSV)
• Table G: PAS findspot precision in 2011(where recorded) (CSV)
• Table H: Method of discovery of PAS finds in 2011 (where known) (CSV)
• Table I: Land use if findspot for PAS finds in 2011 (where known) (CSV)
• Table J: Use of PAS website in 2011 (CSV)

"Key message"

• In 2011 97,509 finds were recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme. The equivalent number for 2010 was 90,099.

The key message they did not discuss was how many artefact hunters are witholding how many recordable finds and what this means. But they wouldn't, would they?