News

  • Brian Read's latest book, Identifying Detector Finds, has just been published by Greenlight Publishing. The book features over 1700 individual artefacts, all beautifully hand-drawn and fully described, including find locations. Separate sections of the book cover mounts, animal furniture, religious objects, edged weapons and tools and their fittings, small tools and instruments, vessels and receptacles, jewellery and fasteners, personal objects, commerce objects, security objects, militaria,...
  • Team member, Rod Blunt, has produced a new guide to the identification of Richard II pennies, which is illustrated largely with coins recorded on the UKDFD and the PAS database. The article can be viewed on Rod's website, BC&A, via the link: Richard II Pennies. Access is free and no registration is required. Any typos, wrong links, transcription errors, etc. encountered, should be reported by using the contact form on the BC&A website, and they will be checked and corrected as soon as...
  • Aug 07, 2021

    UKDFD Milestone

    UKDFD recently reached a milestone of 50,000 published records, of which our team has identified or validated over 98% (virtually 100% in the case of coins). For the large majority of records, our identifications are supported by cited references to respected sources. In turn, the material recorded on the UKDFD is cited in academic papers, popular publications and hobby websites. Students are using the database to conduct research and publish articles and guides. Our team member Bob Green,...
  • Although we record only fairly basic personal information, and everything we hold has been provided freely by our members themselves, we thought it wise to take a look at our Privacy Policy in the light of the forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into effect on 25 May, 2018. As a result of this review, we have refreshed and expanded our Privacy Policy to ensure that all aspects are in line with the Regulation. The wording of the policy now lets our members...
  • Apr 15, 2018

    UKDFD News

    Following comments received from members, we have altered the 'Record View' on the mobile version of our website. The view on a smartphone is now closer to that on our desktop website. It shows a gallery of thumbnails, each of which can be touched to display a complete high-resolution image. Below each high-resolution image there is a set of navigation buttons for moving backwards and forwards through the gallery or displaying them as a slide-show. Alternatively, the individual images can be...
Records to be compared
There are no records to compare
Sign in
Username
Password
Forgotten your password? Remind