50 Finds from Buckinghamshire: objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

August 30, 2021
In this latest book in the 50 Finds series, Arwen Wood, Finds Liaison Officer for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes, presents Britain’s history through the objects found across the county and recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS). Sadly lacking in standing archaeological remains, Buckinghamshire is sometimes thought of as a region that people in the past simply passed through, rather than a place where things happened. However, the abundance of finds recorded through the PAS shows just how untrue this is, and the 50 objects presented in this book reveal a county with a rich human history. Far from being merely an intermediate location, Buckinghamshire’s position near London

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