Thank you

 We recently received an email from Michael Lewis on behalf of the NCMD and its members. Well done to everyone that recorded finds with the Portable Antiquities Scheme.  Hi All (PAS staff, managers and PAAG members), Happy New Year! In 2023, PAS staff, volunteers and interns etc, recorded 74,506 finds within 50,550 records, which is an […]

Happy New Year!

On behalf of the NCMD Committee and Board of Trustees I would like to wish you all a Very Happy New Year!I’d also like to thank all my colleagues, both on the committee and on the board of trustees for the huge amount of work and commitment they put into supporting our members and our […]

NCMD Christmas Prize Winners

Congratulations to everyone who won a prize in our recent £10,000 Christmas Draw. A list of membership numbers and county are below. We will contact each winner individually to let you know what prize you have won. Prizes ranged from:1 x Prize – Deus 2 11″Coil, Remote Control, WSA2 Headphones.1 x Prize – Nox 700, […]

NCMD November News Update

Recent changes to the NCMD means we have some new faces on board. The majority of the NCMD Committee and Trustees are volunteers recruited from our own members. This means they have a vested interest in the NCMD and detecting. They work hard giving up their time to ensure our great hobby remains protected. Meet […]

The Scottish Treasure Trove Laws

The Scottish Treasure Trove laws are being reviewed in the new year and the NCMD have been invited to take part to ensure that the interests of our members in Scotland are represented, and to make sure that everyone has a voice in that review.  Dave Crisp and myself were invited to a meeting at […]

PAS Conference 2023

“The contribution of detector finds to archaeology”. This year’s PAS conference was held at the Yorkshire Museum in York, with the overall theme based around the contribution that detecting finds have made to archaeology and the archaeological record. There are currently around 1.66 million finds recorded on the PAS database, of which some 97% have […]

NCMD – EGM

We will be holding an EGM on Thursday 8th June, this is to discuss an amendment to the constitution regarding the two remaining regions of the NCMD.