Portable Antiquities

Devoted to the study and dissemination of information about clay tobacco pipes.

Ben Levick and Roland Williamson explain how glass and amber were fashioned into beads and a variety of other objects in this attractively illustrated article from Regia Anglorum.

Two annonated ancient Greek music papyrii.

Pictures of a personal collection of arrowheads, spear points, and stone tools, found while surface artifact hunting in Middle and West Tennessee.

Collection of points from Texas.

The Guardian reports that a late 7th-century brooch made of copper and delicately worked gold, studded with Indian garnets, goes on show at the Museum of London.