We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
The UK is a world leader and innovator in cultural heritage protection and has taken concrete steps to safeguard some of humanity’s most valued cultural heritage.
Lord Parkinson addressed the Annual Banquet of the Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars to champion the arts and heritage sector.
Annual statistics of the number of objects of treasure found.
This is the eleventh Annual Report to Parliament on the operation of the Treasure Act 1996.
This is the twelfth Annual Report to Parliament on the operation of the Treasure Act 1996.
Annual statistics of the number of objects of treasure found in 2015 (and the headline figure for 2016)
Government changes the legal definition of treasure so that more new discoveries can go on public display
The Treasure Valuation Committee (TVC), comprising of independent antiques or coin experts and a representative of the hobby of metal-detecting, establishes the likely market value of each treasure find. A reward of this value can then be made to the...
Move will ensure more significant artefacts are saved for the public
Soane's is the idiosyncratic house-museum of the great Neo-Classical architect Sir John Soane (1753 – 1837). The house still displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, models and paintings in the same state in which they were left at the time...
Treasure Annual Report to Parliament on the operation of the Treasure Act 1996
First published during the 2005 to 2010 Labour government
The Secretary of State has reappointed Christopher Martin as a Member of the Treasure Valuation Committee for a term of five years from 7 February 2021.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey.