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Festival 2022

The 2022 Festival of Archaeology tales place from 16-31 July and this year our theme is Journeys

We are currently developing a new website for the Festival of Archaeology

For information about the 2022 Festival please visit https://www.archaeologyuk.org/festival.html

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Digital event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2021

The Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) in North West Norfolk is one of the country’s largest archaeological sites run entirely by volunteers. For 25 years, SHARP has been provided excavation, research and training course opportunities at Sedgeford. Hundreds of...

Digital event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2021
The Young Archaeologists' Club is partnering with Historic England to give YAC branches the opportunity to 'Enrich The List'.

On July 24th, as part of the Festival of Archaeology YAC Takeover Day, the YAC will be focusing on this year's Festival theme 'exploring local place'. One of the ways we...

On-the-ground event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2021

Celebrate this year’s Festival of Archaeology theme of ‘exploring local places’ with this new, self-led trail around the Shaw House and St Mary’s Church Conservation Area, including Shaw House Registered Park and Garden.

Starting in the grounds of West Berkshire’s very own Elizabethan...

Digital event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2020

Family Workshop Online

Join Andy for an interactive online family craft workshop to make a model Bronze Age dagger out of junk.
We’ll be using scrap card from the recycling bin and things that you should have lying around at home to make a model of the Hameldown Dagger discovered...

Digital event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2020

Auckland Castle Park on the edge of Bishop Auckland is what remains of a once much larger medieval deer park established over 900 years ago for the influential Bishops of Durham. From its early beginnings as a space for hunting and grazing, it became a polite post-medieval garden landscape for...

Digital event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2020

Taking place as part of the Festival of Archaeology, this webinar is an Introduction to HS2 Archaeology in Staffordshire and Cheshire

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High Speed Two (HS2) is the new high speed railway for Britain.

Before we build bridges, tunnels, tracks and stations,...

Digital event
Throughout the Festival of Archaeology 2021

Join our Historic Environment Record officer and the Portsdown Countryside Officer to take a look at the archaeology and history of the hill and how this area of special scientific interest is managed today.