in museums across the country for all to enjoy".

Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, said "The British Museum is a world museum but it is also a museum for Britain. The PAS contributes enormously to our National Programme activity and our work across the country. It is an amazing partnership, drawing together over 100 local museums and other organisations to deliver the Scheme's aims of recording the past to advance knowledge and sharing that knowledge with all".

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Denmark, England, Flanders and the Netherlands are amongthe most progressive areas of Europe in terms of mechanisms to record archaeological finds found by members of the general public, and make these finds accessible for research and public interest inthrough our finds recording databases and other means, by acting as intermediary for finds experts in different regions around the North Sea, and by identifying gaps in archaeological small finds knowledge.

Vision:

Stimulate and enhance public engagement and access to the archaeological heritage at local, region, and national level;

Improve standards of archaeological work done by members of the public to engender a sense of shared ownership in the past;

Enable members of the public to contribute to the recording and handling of archaeological heritage in order to advance knowledge;

Advance the democratisation of heritage management in Europe through the incorporation of principles of citizen science and crowd-sourcing.

Promote the study of recorded finds as an internationally important body of archaeological evidence for human behaviour and interaction around the North Sea.

Mr. Ellery, HM Coroner