Treasure Valuation Committee's Chair and two Trustees reappointed

The Secretary of State has reappointed Roger Bland as Chair, and Megan Gooch and Lucinda Orr as Trustees of TVC, for a second term of 5 years.

Roger was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours, 2025 for services to Heritage. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford and London and is a visiting Professor at the University of Leicester and Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Roger worked at the British Museum (1979-2015), when he retired as Keeper of the Department of Prehistory, Britain and Europe. He was seconded to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (1994-2002) to advise on the passage of the Treasure Act 1996, and founded the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a nationwide network of c. 50 staff who record finds made by metal detector users and over one and three-quarter million finds are now recorded on the online database. 

An expert on Roman coins, he was President of the British Numismatic Society (2011-2016) and the Royal Numismatic Society (2018-2023). He was awarded the President’s Medal of the British Academy in 2016 and the medals of the Royal Numismatic Society in 2013 and also of the French and American Numismatic Societies. He has written several books on Roman coins and coin hoards and has just completed Roman Imperial Coins IV.3, Gordian III-Aemilian (238-53). Roger has lived in Norfolk since 2017 and is a Licensed Lay Minister in the Church of England.