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Founded in 1844, promotes the study of archaeology in the British Isles and Europe and publishes The Archaeological Journal.
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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...
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 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 ⛪️

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A view of the vaulting of Bell Harry Tower at Canterbury Cathedral
October 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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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!
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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
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Festival of Archaeology at Oakham Castle 10 am to 4 pm today. #archaeology #history
July 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM