Welcome to Past Explorer's

Welcome to PASt explorers, the Portable Antiquities Scheme's education website. This website is designed for use in the classroom, museum or at home. It has been split into 3 distinct sections – Fun, Teachers and Database, each of which contain teaching and learning resources.

West Mucking
Pack your bag
Children handling artefacts

The resources are primarily aimed at Key Stage 2 of the English National Curriculum, in other words are aimed at children between the ages of 7-11. However, they are just as much fun for older learners (including adults)!

The resources are linked directly to specific Schemes of Work within the National Curriculum in a variety of subject areas including History, ICT, Geography, STEM and cross curricular enrichment too.

The resources found here include:

These resources have been built with the help of real archaeologists including Helen Geake, an Anglo-Saxon specialist who has appeared regularly on Time-Team and Cei Paynton our Education Officer who has appeared on Time Team and presents local history stories for the BBC. Real teachers, children and education specialists have helped too!

The site works through experiential learning and reinforcement and is ideal for all members of the class, especially those whose learning style is not best suited by more formal pedagogy.


jobs in Archaeology from jobs.ac.uk

  1. Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Bronze Age Archaeology
    McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research - University of Cambridge / Date of entry: 25/02/10
  2. PhD Studentship
    Anglo-Saxon Metalwork - School of History and Archaeology - Cardiff University / Date of entry: 25/02/10
  3. Research Associate
    Institute of Archaeology - University College London / Date of entry: 25/02/10
  4. Part-time Research Assistant
    School Of Archaeology Oxford Centre For Maritime Archaeology - University of Oxford / Date of entry: 23/02/10
  5. NERC Studentship (B)
    Archaeology - Department of Archaeology - Durham University / Date of entry: 19/02/10
  6. Teaching Associate (Fixed-term)
    Department of Archaeology - School of Humanities - University of Nottingham / Date of entry: 15/02/10
  7. Deputy Director Business
    London Centre for Nanotechnology - University College London / Date of entry: 16/02/10
  8. Research Associate
    Institute of Archaeology - University College London / Date of entry: 25/02/10
  9. Research Associate
    Institute of Archaeology - University College London / Date of entry: 25/02/10
  10. Junior Research Fellowships
    The Sciences - University of Oxford / Date of entry: 05/03/10
  11. EPSRC PhD Plus Fellowships 2010
    University of Nottingham / Date of entry: 07/03/10
  12. University of Reading PhD Studentship
    Quantifying the Heritage Resource Potential of Lowland Wetlands in NW Europe - School of Human and Environmental Sciences - University of Reading / Date of entry: 07/03/10
  13. Project Officer Environmental (Palynologist)
    Lancaster Office - Oxford Archaeology / Date of entry: 03/03/10
  14. PhD Studentship
    Resilience Management of Ecological Services in National Parks Developing a New Evolutionary Approach - School of Geography Palaeoenvironmental Laboratory University of Southampton (PLUS) - University of Southampton / Date of entry: 03/03/10
  15. Fellowship by Examination (JRF)
    Magdalen College Oxford - University of Oxford / Date of entry: 02/03/10
  16. Contracts Executive
    Based at South Kensington - Imperial College London Consultants / Date of entry: 02/03/10
  17. Lecturer
    Chronology - School of Geography Archaeology and Palaeoecology - Queens University Belfast / Date of entry: 08/03/10

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