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Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s I Professor Richard Bradley YouTube video by Royal Archaeological Institute

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.

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Aymer's wife Lucy is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...

Aymer Vallance, the owner of Stoneacre, was an active member of the RAI during the late 19th - early 20th centuries:

𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐕𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐘: 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲

The RAI is seeking applications for the role of Honorary Secretary. Expenses are available for business travel & accommodation where necessary. Full details at www.royalarchinst.org/news/2025/vo...

Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund

The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is now open for applications. ⏳

Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉

We are accepting 𝗥𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀.
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 8 December 2025.
Full details/application at www.royalarchinst.org/grants

Regional and Extra-local Pollen Evidence for Long-term Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall at Alston Moor, North Pennines, UK Long-term vegetation recordscan inform woodland creation and mire management. We present two dated pollen recordsfrom Alston Moor, UK, to investigate long-term vegetation change and itsrelationship...

New paper! Thanks to @royalarchinst.bsky.social and Catherine Mackichan Trust for funding this research.

Regional and Extra-local Pollen Evidence for Long-term Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall at Alston Moor, North Pennines, UK

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𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗬: Editor of the Archaeological Journal
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 31st October 2025

𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.

Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...

A view of the vaulting of Bell Harry Tower at Canterbury Cathedral

Booking is now open for our Autumn Meeting in Canterbury!

We will be visiting St Martin’s Church, St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral during the day, with guided tours at each location and a special visit to the archives at the Cathedral ⛪️

www.royalarchinst.org/events/2025/...

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

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YouTube video by Royal Archaeological Institute Cathcart Castle reconsidered I Brian Kerr

𝟖 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝟓 𝐩𝐦, 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 & 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
The first lecture of our 2025-26 series will be presented by our former Honorary Secretary, Brian Kerr who will be speaking about ‘Cathcart Castle reconsidered'. youtu.be/KGbT-sgQOSk

We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉

Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future.

Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk

Editor (RAI Archaeological Journal ) - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources Salary: annual honorarium of £4,500Closing Date: 31/10/25Location: UK based

Editor (RAI Archaeological Journal )
Royal Archaeological Institute
Salary: annual honorarium of £4,500
Closing Date: 31/10/25
Location: UK based

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New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

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#openaccess✅

A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city...

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VACANCY: The Institute is seeking an Editor for the Archaeological Journal to succeed Prof Rhiannon Stevens. The newly-appointed Editor will shadow Prof Stevens during 2025/26. There is an annual honorarium of £4,500. For full details/expressions of interest, please contact admin@royalarchinst.org

Bell ringing at the Minster

Interpretation panel showing a window design with graffiti

Exposed medieval floor at St George’s Guildhall

Eel spears on display at Lynn Museum

A splendid final day for our Summer Meeting was spent exploring Kings Lynn. Huge thanks to Peter Jackson for the tours at the Minster & St Nicholas Chapel and to Lynn Museum, Stories of Lynn, St George’s Guildhall & the Fisherfolk Museum for having us to visit!
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View of the ramparts at Warham Hillfort

The group gathered outside the west elevation at Binham Priory

Bircham Windmill

The castle keep at Castle Rising

Six site visits for Day 4 of our Summer Meeting! We started at Warham Iron Age hillfort, then on to Binham Priory (many thanks to Matt Champion for the tour!). We then visited the intriguing North Elmham, Bircham Windmill, a Bronze Age barrow on Peddars Way & finally the spectacular Castle Rising

A group of people standing in a green field with trees to their rear. They are looking out over the site of a former Roman settlement

The represented Great Hall at Norwich Castle. The medieval space is dressed with reproduction furniture including thrones and trestle tables with wall hangings and projections.

The nave roof at Norwich Cathedral showing the lierne vaulting

The aisle at Norwich Cathedral illuminated in shades of orange and purple from the coloured glass of the Trinity Windows.

Day 3 - Caistor #Roman town then Norwich Castle and Cathedral!

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The ruined church at Appleton. View showing the Saxon round tower, 13th century arcade and later porch

View of Sandringham House from across the lake. The building is late Victorian, of red brick with decorative towers.

The 12th century west front of the church at Castle Acre Priory, which retains much of its original decorative scheme. To the right of the image is the Priors Lodging.

At the top of Castle Acre Castle (Upper Ward). The Royal Archaeological Institute group stands to the left of the image, next to the curtain wall. The view looks out over the Lower Ward and to the countryside beyond.

Another busy day! Today we visited the ruined church at Appleton, the royal estate at Sandringham & spent the afternoon at Castle Acre, with a guided tour by our former President Jonathan Coad around the Priory and Castle, which he excavated during the 1970s. ⛪️👑🏰

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Welcome sign for Grimes Graves which reads ‘it is named after the Anglo-Saxon god Grim (also known as Woder or Odin) King of the gods, of wisdom, war and poetry)

View down a brick staircase at Oxburgh Hall

The workshop at the Charles Burrrell Museum looking down over the steam engines

View of the enormous mound and surrounding bank and ditch at Thetford Castle, with the modern staircase rising to the top of the mound.

Day 1 has been brilliant! We started at the Neolithic flint mines at Grimes Graves, then on to Oxburgh Hall & spent the afternoon in Thetford. We visited the Charles Burrell Museum (AMAZING cakes), Thetford Priory, Castle & Warreners Lodge 🏰⛪️🐇

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The courtyard at Thoresby College, a sixteenth century structure in Kings Lynn in Norfolk. Cream coloured plastered buildings with white painted windows and doors and a brick arched opening are seen behind a large tree with pink blossom (image from Wikipedia)

Timbers from the prehistoric intertidal structure found on the foreshore at Holme in Norfolk, on display as part of the ‘World of Stonehenge’ exhibition at the British Museum in April 2022. The original wooden posts are shown mounted on modern plinths with a holographic representation of the central upturned timber in the centre.

Image of a lecturer presenting in the Great Hall at Thoresby College. Behind the speaker is a screen with an image of Seahenge on it

It’s our Summer Meeting this week & we’ll be visiting sites around Kings Lynn in Norfolk. Our programme begins tonight with a lecture in the Great Hall at Thoresby College by Dr Clive Bond, about the prehistory of Norfolk & the (in) famous site of Seahenge.

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Check out the great line up for our 2025 - 2026 lecture programme. Full details at www.royalarchinst.org/events/lectu...

Lectures are held in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, at 5 p.m and on our YouTube channel.

The deadline for the Archaeological Achievement Awards has been extended, which means there’s still time to nominate! 🏆

That colleague who’s smashing it? The TikTok creator sparking a conversation? The project changing lives? Don’t let them go unrecognised!

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Cerne Abbey: Archaeologists unearth secrets of medieval hall Archaeologists return to Cerne Abbas to unearth the medieval abbey and its Anglo Saxon predecessor.

Pleased to see some coverage by the BBC of our excavations at #CerneAbbey which concluded at the weekend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A large group of people cheering in a field with gazebos and trees in the background

Season 2 of #Bodiam100 at Bodiam Castle has officially begun! Yesterday was our induction day for our volunteers to get to know the site & we started digging today!
#OutInTheField #EastSussex #festivalofarchaeology 🏺🪏
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🧡 That’s a wrap on #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day!

From powerful photography exhibitions to inspiring research & YAB news, today was all about young voices in archaeology.

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us & to @royalarchinst.bsky.social for kindly sponsoring. We couldn't do it without you!

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🙏 A huge thank you to the @royalarchinst.bsky.social for generously sponsoring Youth Day

Your support helps us shine a spotlight on young voices, fresh perspectives, and the exciting future of archaeology. Youth Day wouldn’t be possible without you! 💙