Culture Secretary makes appointments to Treasure Valuation Committee

Harry Bain, Jim Brown and Marian Campbell are new Members, and Professor Lord Renfrew and Peter Clayton have been reappointed as Chairman and Member respectively.

Harry Bain publishes and edits The Searcher, a magazine produced for metal detectorists and amateur archaeologists, which she took over from her mother in 2004. She is also the editor of the Digging Deep newsletter of the National Council for Metal Detecting. Her earlier career was in graphic design and marketing at Design Fulcrum, Communiqué Group, and Lippa Pearce (now Pentagram).

Jim Brown is a highly respected numismatist, specialising in the coinage of medieval Europe and the entire series of British coins. Since 2007 he has been working with the coin dealer Dix Noonan Webb, chiefly on British coins from Celtic times to the present day, but also on foreign coins from the early medieval period onwards.

Marian Campbell retired in 2010 as Senior Curator of Metalwork at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she was in charge of the collections of medieval goldsmiths’ work and base metals, enamels and jewellery, and of the National Ironwork collection. She has been Honorary Secretary of the British Archaeological Association, and a member of the Councils of the National Trust, the Jewellery History Society, the Church Monuments Society, and the Church Buildings Council: Sculpture & Furnishings Conservation Committee. Society memberships currently also include the Finds Research Group and the Medieval Dress and Textiles Society. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Iron committee of the Ironmongers’ Company, and Honorary Adviser to the Cutlers’ Company.