National Trust Archaeology
@nattrustarch.bsky.social
Sharing information about archaeology at National Trust places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
As a special treat for #HillfortsWednesday landing on Christmas Eve, we’re sharing some wintery images of hillforts in the care of the National Trust!
The photos are of Figsbury Ring (Wiltshire), Hod Hill (Dorset), Mam Tor (Derbyshire) and Cissbury Ring (West Sussex).
The photos are of Figsbury Ring (Wiltshire), Hod Hill (Dorset), Mam Tor (Derbyshire) and Cissbury Ring (West Sussex).
December 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
As a special treat for #HillfortsWednesday landing on Christmas Eve, we’re sharing some wintery images of hillforts in the care of the National Trust!
The photos are of Figsbury Ring (Wiltshire), Hod Hill (Dorset), Mam Tor (Derbyshire) and Cissbury Ring (West Sussex).
The photos are of Figsbury Ring (Wiltshire), Hod Hill (Dorset), Mam Tor (Derbyshire) and Cissbury Ring (West Sussex).
❄❄ Hope everyone is feeling suitably festive! ❄❄
Here are a few suggestions of places to visit: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
Here are a few suggestions of places to visit: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
❄❄ Hope everyone is feeling suitably festive! ❄❄
Here are a few suggestions of places to visit: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
Here are a few suggestions of places to visit: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
Another #FestiveFriday offering, and this time we’re heading to Cornwall, to the St Just area to find some ‘merriment holes’!
These were drilled into stones by miners and quarrymen in the 19th century.
These were drilled into stones by miners and quarrymen in the 19th century.
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Another #FestiveFriday offering, and this time we’re heading to Cornwall, to the St Just area to find some ‘merriment holes’!
These were drilled into stones by miners and quarrymen in the 19th century.
These were drilled into stones by miners and quarrymen in the 19th century.
Cover to Cover: Christmas at Scotney in Kent
Each room of the Victorian Mansion has been transformed with decorations inspired by books from Scotney's collection. From Alice in Wonderland to A Christmas Carol there's enchantment around every corner 🎄
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/s...
Each room of the Victorian Mansion has been transformed with decorations inspired by books from Scotney's collection. From Alice in Wonderland to A Christmas Carol there's enchantment around every corner 🎄
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/s...
December 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Cover to Cover: Christmas at Scotney in Kent
Each room of the Victorian Mansion has been transformed with decorations inspired by books from Scotney's collection. From Alice in Wonderland to A Christmas Carol there's enchantment around every corner 🎄
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/s...
Each room of the Victorian Mansion has been transformed with decorations inspired by books from Scotney's collection. From Alice in Wonderland to A Christmas Carol there's enchantment around every corner 🎄
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/s...
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Not a bad office for the last drone survey of 2025 🌞🎄 - back at Penmaen Dewi/St David's Head in Pembrokeshire with the Matrice 4E for @rcahmwales.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Not a bad office for the last drone survey of 2025 🌞🎄 - back at Penmaen Dewi/St David's Head in Pembrokeshire with the Matrice 4E for @rcahmwales.bsky.social
"Hidden Treasures of the National Trust" returns with a Christmas special this Friday (19th December) on BBC Two at 9pm.
Viewers will have privileged access to three unique properties as they prepare for three very different Christmas celebrations: Cragside, Cotehele and Coleton Fishacre.
Viewers will have privileged access to three unique properties as they prepare for three very different Christmas celebrations: Cragside, Cotehele and Coleton Fishacre.
December 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Hidden Treasures of the National Trust" returns with a Christmas special this Friday (19th December) on BBC Two at 9pm.
Viewers will have privileged access to three unique properties as they prepare for three very different Christmas celebrations: Cragside, Cotehele and Coleton Fishacre.
Viewers will have privileged access to three unique properties as they prepare for three very different Christmas celebrations: Cragside, Cotehele and Coleton Fishacre.
For #Hanukkah, we're visiting 1 Home Farm Drive, part of the Upton House estate. A former farm outbuilding, it was converted in the 1930s by the owners of the estate, the Bearsteds, for their family Rabbi to live in.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays/oxf...
Chag Sameach 🕎
#JewishCountryHouses
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays/oxf...
Chag Sameach 🕎
#JewishCountryHouses
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
For #Hanukkah, we're visiting 1 Home Farm Drive, part of the Upton House estate. A former farm outbuilding, it was converted in the 1930s by the owners of the estate, the Bearsteds, for their family Rabbi to live in.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays/oxf...
Chag Sameach 🕎
#JewishCountryHouses
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays/oxf...
Chag Sameach 🕎
#JewishCountryHouses
Throughout December we’ll be celebrating ‘Festive Fridays’, sharing the most tenuous links to festive-themed archaeological sites in the care of the National Trust!
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Throughout December we’ll be celebrating ‘Festive Fridays’, sharing the most tenuous links to festive-themed archaeological sites in the care of the National Trust!
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
We’re starting with ‘Christmas Shaft’, an air shaft marked on the 1882 Ordnance Survey at Alderley Edge. bit.ly/3MbSqTI
Congratulations to all of the #CurrentArchaeologyAwards nominees!
Cast your vote here: bit.ly/48zAZp3
We're also excited for the Current Archaeology Live conference next year which includes our @nts-archaeology.bsky.social colleagues on their their award winning #PioneeringSpirit whisky project!
Cast your vote here: bit.ly/48zAZp3
We're also excited for the Current Archaeology Live conference next year which includes our @nts-archaeology.bsky.social colleagues on their their award winning #PioneeringSpirit whisky project!
Archaeology Awards Voting - Current Archaeology
Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?
archaeology.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Congratulations to all of the #CurrentArchaeologyAwards nominees!
Cast your vote here: bit.ly/48zAZp3
We're also excited for the Current Archaeology Live conference next year which includes our @nts-archaeology.bsky.social colleagues on their their award winning #PioneeringSpirit whisky project!
Cast your vote here: bit.ly/48zAZp3
We're also excited for the Current Archaeology Live conference next year which includes our @nts-archaeology.bsky.social colleagues on their their award winning #PioneeringSpirit whisky project!
Explore 700 years of festive cheer at Ightham Mote in #Kent: from yuletide folklore to Tudor festivities, a Victorian Christmas & the traditions of Charles Henry Robinson to the the nostalgia of 1985, the year Ightham Mote entered National Trust care 🎄❄️
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/i...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/i...
December 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Explore 700 years of festive cheer at Ightham Mote in #Kent: from yuletide folklore to Tudor festivities, a Victorian Christmas & the traditions of Charles Henry Robinson to the the nostalgia of 1985, the year Ightham Mote entered National Trust care 🎄❄️
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/i...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/kent/i...
*NEWS* Fundraiser launched to help buy land around Cerne Giant.
NT Archaeologist, Steve Timms, said: “The acquisition will provide an opportunity for landscape scale research & investigation & help us manage the land in the most appropriate way.”
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
NT Archaeologist, Steve Timms, said: “The acquisition will provide an opportunity for landscape scale research & investigation & help us manage the land in the most appropriate way.”
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
*NEWS* Fundraiser launched to help buy land around Cerne Giant.
NT Archaeologist, Steve Timms, said: “The acquisition will provide an opportunity for landscape scale research & investigation & help us manage the land in the most appropriate way.”
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
NT Archaeologist, Steve Timms, said: “The acquisition will provide an opportunity for landscape scale research & investigation & help us manage the land in the most appropriate way.”
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med...
Last Wednesday over 50 HART (Heritage and Archaeology Ranger Team) volunteers, rangers, volunteer leads and archaeologists from across the South West came together at Barrington.
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Last Wednesday over 50 HART (Heritage and Archaeology Ranger Team) volunteers, rangers, volunteer leads and archaeologists from across the South West came together at Barrington.
THANK YOU to Chartwell for hosting the regional meeting of our Heritage & Archaeology Ranger Teams - including attendees from Chartwell, Knole, Scotney, Osterley, Morden, Runnymede, Limpsfield, South Downs, Isle of Wight, Hinton Ampner, Nymans & Standen
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteer
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteer
December 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
THANK YOU to Chartwell for hosting the regional meeting of our Heritage & Archaeology Ranger Teams - including attendees from Chartwell, Knole, Scotney, Osterley, Morden, Runnymede, Limpsfield, South Downs, Isle of Wight, Hinton Ampner, Nymans & Standen
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteer
heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/volunteer
NEW Toolkit: working with experts across a number of different institutions & with support from the Royal Historical Society, we're delighted to share this FREE resource for anyone interested in or involved with the conservation & interpretation of ruins.
heyzine.com/flip-book/77...
#ruins 🏰
heyzine.com/flip-book/77...
#ruins 🏰
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
NEW Toolkit: working with experts across a number of different institutions & with support from the Royal Historical Society, we're delighted to share this FREE resource for anyone interested in or involved with the conservation & interpretation of ruins.
heyzine.com/flip-book/77...
#ruins 🏰
heyzine.com/flip-book/77...
#ruins 🏰
This winter, many of the houses & gardens in our care will be transformed with Christmas illuminations. From spectacular light shows at big country houses to family-friendly twinkling trails, there's something for everyone 🎄
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
©National Trust Images/Rob Coleman
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
©National Trust Images/Rob Coleman
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This winter, many of the houses & gardens in our care will be transformed with Christmas illuminations. From spectacular light shows at big country houses to family-friendly twinkling trails, there's something for everyone 🎄
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
©National Trust Images/Rob Coleman
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/christ...
©National Trust Images/Rob Coleman
*NEWS* from #Chartwell for Sir Winston Churchill’s 151st birthday! To introduce this post is a painting by #Churchill showing the landscape & house that were so close to his heart.
🧑🎨C286 "A View of Chartwell", by Winston S. Churchill, c.1938, © Churchill Heritage Ltd.
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@nationaltrust.org.uk
🧑🎨C286 "A View of Chartwell", by Winston S. Churchill, c.1938, © Churchill Heritage Ltd.
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@nationaltrust.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
*NEWS* from #Chartwell for Sir Winston Churchill’s 151st birthday! To introduce this post is a painting by #Churchill showing the landscape & house that were so close to his heart.
🧑🎨C286 "A View of Chartwell", by Winston S. Churchill, c.1938, © Churchill Heritage Ltd.
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@nationaltrust.org.uk
🧑🎨C286 "A View of Chartwell", by Winston S. Churchill, c.1938, © Churchill Heritage Ltd.
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@nationaltrust.org.uk
🎉🎉 Huge congratulations to Kayleigh Hibberd - winner of the Early Career Archaeologist Award at the Archaeological Achievement Awards! 🏆
#ChangingChalk @nationaltrust.org.uk
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social @royalarchinst.bsky.social
#ChangingChalk @nationaltrust.org.uk
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social @royalarchinst.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🎉🎉 Huge congratulations to Kayleigh Hibberd - winner of the Early Career Archaeologist Award at the Archaeological Achievement Awards! 🏆
#ChangingChalk @nationaltrust.org.uk
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social @royalarchinst.bsky.social
#ChangingChalk @nationaltrust.org.uk
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social @royalarchinst.bsky.social
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Only a few hours left until we come together with archaeologists across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
Archaeological Achievement Awards 2025
YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Only a few hours left until we come together with archaeologists across the UK and Ireland to celebrate the 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
You can join us and cheer on the winners from home by watching our live-stream, starting 8 pm today 👉 www.youtube.com/live/GA6_QaE...
Today we’re celebrating #BedfordshireDay by heading to Dunstable Downs to explore thousands of years of human history, and the only recorded barrow cemetery in the county! 🧵
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Today we’re celebrating #BedfordshireDay by heading to Dunstable Downs to explore thousands of years of human history, and the only recorded barrow cemetery in the county! 🧵
We’ve mentioned in posts earlier this month that the National Trust looks after almost 100,000 sites of archaeological and historic interest, but did you know that we also care for thousands of archaeological finds, and that you can explore them in our online collection?https://bit.ly/44iRYZV
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We’ve mentioned in posts earlier this month that the National Trust looks after almost 100,000 sites of archaeological and historic interest, but did you know that we also care for thousands of archaeological finds, and that you can explore them in our online collection?https://bit.ly/44iRYZV
The team recreating the famous Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial ship is inviting the public to name it!
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The team recreating the famous Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon burial ship is inviting the public to name it!
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
The Sutton Hoo Ships Company (SHSC) aim to complete the project next year before getting the ship on the River Deben in 2027.
You can submit your nomination here: saxonship.org/suggest-a-na...
Can you believe it - it's 8 years since we set up our Facebook & 4 years since we started on Instagram!
A huge THANK YOU to all our followers on both channels (nearly 17,000 of you on Facebook & 8,000 on Instagram) & also to the 4,000+ of you who are following us here.
✍️ Tom Gauld / New Scientist
A huge THANK YOU to all our followers on both channels (nearly 17,000 of you on Facebook & 8,000 on Instagram) & also to the 4,000+ of you who are following us here.
✍️ Tom Gauld / New Scientist
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Can you believe it - it's 8 years since we set up our Facebook & 4 years since we started on Instagram!
A huge THANK YOU to all our followers on both channels (nearly 17,000 of you on Facebook & 8,000 on Instagram) & also to the 4,000+ of you who are following us here.
✍️ Tom Gauld / New Scientist
A huge THANK YOU to all our followers on both channels (nearly 17,000 of you on Facebook & 8,000 on Instagram) & also to the 4,000+ of you who are following us here.
✍️ Tom Gauld / New Scientist
Looking for something to do as the nights draw in?
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Looking for something to do as the nights draw in?
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
Earlier this year, during the #FestivalofArchaeology, three of our brilliant archaeologists provided an opportunity to learn more about the varied work they’re involved with.
Head to the @archaeologyuk YouTube channel to watch: bit.ly/3LQtS2i
It’s #HillfortsWednesday!
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It’s #HillfortsWednesday!
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust?
They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵
This month we’re sharing different ways in which you can learn more about the archaeology at the places in the care of @nationaltrust.org.uk.
As the colder, darker nights set in it can be nice to curl up with a good book, so here are some recent publications you might find interesting. 📚🧵
As the colder, darker nights set in it can be nice to curl up with a good book, so here are some recent publications you might find interesting. 📚🧵
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This month we’re sharing different ways in which you can learn more about the archaeology at the places in the care of @nationaltrust.org.uk.
As the colder, darker nights set in it can be nice to curl up with a good book, so here are some recent publications you might find interesting. 📚🧵
As the colder, darker nights set in it can be nice to curl up with a good book, so here are some recent publications you might find interesting. 📚🧵