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Nathalie Cohen
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Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk?
NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵
The Heritage Records Online website homepage with a range of pictures of historic sites and options to learn more
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Aymer's wife Lucy is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
November 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Aymer Vallance, the owner of Stoneacre, was an active member of the RAI during the late 19th - early 20th centuries:
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We're delighted to be working with MJC-Associates to record the graffiti & inscriptions at Stoneacre. The house is a medieval timber-framed building, with many later alterations to the fabric, including those undertaken by Aymer Vallance, who presented the house to the National Trust in 1928.
The timberframed house at Stoneacre surrounded by autumn foliage
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The fireplace is ornately decorated & covered in 15th- 16th century text. Throughout the rest of the house are examples of ritual protective marks, such as compass-drawn designs & taper burns 🔥

A huge thank you to @kentarchsoc & the William & Edith Oldham Charitable Trust for funding the survey.
Text inscriptions on the fire surround Taper burn mark Compass drawn design
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Vallance actively 'collected' both structural elements & interiors to add to the house - one of these was the fireplace in the Great Hall. The fireplace is recorded to have originally been located at the George, an inn or hotel at 31 High Street Sittingbourne.
Graffiti surveyor at work recording the fireplace in the Great Hall
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We're delighted to be working with MJC-Associates to record the graffiti & inscriptions at Stoneacre. The house is a medieval timber-framed building, with many later alterations to the fabric, including those undertaken by Aymer Vallance, who presented the house to the National Trust in 1928.
The timberframed house at Stoneacre surrounded by autumn foliage
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We've partnered with Essex Place Services to offer a practical, 3-day building recording course in May 2026 at Knole, focusing on the Garden Wall to create a stone-by-stone record. The course includes a tour of Lord Sackville's Private Garden: www.placeservices.co.uk/conservation...

#CPD #Training
Aerial view of the mansion and parkland at Knole in Sevenoaks Kent
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I like to think @classicfm.com is playing the Indiana Jones theme tune regularly to inspire my afternoon email marathons - many thanks!
Warehouse scene from Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Sissinghurst: Delos Garden, the well and the Priest’s House 🍂
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A large stone lined well is in the foreground, surrounded by paving slabs and garden planting. In the background of the image is the Priests House, a late 16th century brick building.
October 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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We're excited to be working with Wealden Archaeology Group at Scotney Castle! During October, the team has been undertaking GPR survey to learn more about the lost buildings depicted on 18th-early 19th century plans, to the west of the Old Castle.
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Surveyor with ground penetrating radar machine and Scotney old castle in the background Early 19th century redrawn plan of the buildings at Scotney Castle (copied from an 18th century survey)
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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...
Dissertation prizes
The Institute awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (the Tony Baggs Undergraduate Dissertation Prize) or Master's dissertation on an alternating basis. The prize goes to th...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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/...
A view of the vaulting of Bell Harry Tower at Canterbury Cathedral
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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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Bursaries
Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Explore the story of the 3rd Earl of Sheffield & his enduring love & patronage of #cricket, from childhood games to creating a world class cricket pitch & hosting the Australian Cricket Team in 1896 in a new exhibition at Sheffield Park, until 23 November 🏏
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex...
Historic image in black and white showing a cricket match in progress at Sheffield Park in East Sussex. Ornately decorated pavilions are visible in the background of the image while in the foreground a bowler is running in and the batsman is standing at the stumps with other players around him
October 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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*NEWS* We are delighted to share that Kayleigh Hibberd has been shortlisted in the Early Career Archaeologist category #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards.
The winners will be revealed on 28 November at Queen’s University Belfast. The event will be live streamed on @archaeologyuk.bsky.social's YouTube.
A picture of an archaeologist wearing a hard hat and high visibility vest standing in a test pit on an archaeological site. The captions on the image read: On the shortlist! Early Career Archaeologist Archaeological Achievement Awards Sponsored by the Royal Archaeological Institute
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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How’s everyone feeling??
#FridayFun
Image with text and six coloured circles. The text reads: if you can’t see the number then you are: Blue circle with a number 4 visible: dehydrated Light green circle with a number 2 visible: too warm Grey circle with a zero visible: too cold Dark green circle with a six visible: tired Yellow circle with no number visible: still upset about the Library of Alexandria Orange circle with the number 9 visible: hungry
October 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Find out more about some of London’s oldest pubs - including our very own George Inn - in this new article by @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social, cheers! 🍻
jpwarchaeology.bsky.social James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 25
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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September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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We are seeking a new Editor for the Archaeological Journal to succeed @nannonstevens.bsky.social.
#archaeology #editor #journal

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Marie de France, from an illuminated manuscript now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France
September 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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A snapshot of recent history at Sutton House - as part of a fire alarm upgrade project, we have some floorboards lifted & were able to look below them. All the finds post-dated the 1980s-90s restoration, including this @nationaltrust.org.uk centenary leaflet - lost almost 30 years ago to the day!
In the Squatters Room at Sutton House in Hackney, with a floorboard lifted in the centre of the space, showing the floor joists beneath. A leaflet produced for the centenary of the National Trust in 1995, depicting two people on penny farthing bikes and advertising a photographic competition to win a trip to Florida and lifetime membership of the National Trust.
September 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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!
🔔🎭🐟
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
September 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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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
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
September 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Day 3 - Caistor #Roman town then Norwich Castle and Cathedral!

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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.
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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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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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.
September 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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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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.
September 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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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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
September 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM