#LCE24: Canterbury Oast Trust (COT)
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#LCE24: Canterbury Oast Trust (COT)

It was a great day today welcoming members of the Canterbury Oast Trust (COT) to Lees Court Estate! The visit was organised by The Enabled Archaeology Foundation as part of their ongoing work increasing access to archaeology for disabled participants.

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#LCE24: Visit from Maidstone Museum
Andy Ward Andy Ward

#LCE24: Visit from Maidstone Museum

We had a great day on site today at #LCE24! Many more updates to come on our visit from The Enabled Archaeology Foundation, but we were also joined by members of Maidstone Museums who came and helped clean up the Mound ditch. They even recovered some pottery & worked Flint!

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The Winckelmann Cup
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The Winckelmann Cup

In a wonderful, adventurous year of Society firsts, 2024 sees the Kent Archaeology Society qualifying for archaeology’s answer to the UEFA Champions League.

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New Maidstone Museum gallery opening soon
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New Maidstone Museum gallery opening soon

The new Maidstone Museums gallery which the society has been proudly supporting and advising on is soon opening. One of the highlights will be the story of #Eastrylady excavated by Canterbury Archaeological Trust!

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#FindsFriday Lees Court pot washing
Andy Ward Andy Ward

#FindsFriday Lees Court pot washing

It's #findsfriday and on such a bright and sunny day the conditions are perfect for #potwashing! This large lump of mud was hiding a beautifully decorated piece of #Mortlake #neolithic pottery dating from c. 3350 - 2900/2700 BC.

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#LCE2024
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#LCE2024

Some exciting developments at #LCE2024 today as we have an in-situ dump of #flintknapping waste from the middle fill of of the ring ditch (Trench 7, South East Side)…

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Faversham Museums Together
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Faversham Museums Together

The diverse heritage groups in Faversham have joined together as Faversham Museums Together around the concept of a Heritage Hub to jointly develop a GIS-based platform to present the heritage of the town and that of the Faversham Hundred, reflecting the significance of Faversham’s rural hinterland and the sea.

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#LCE24
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#LCE24

Another good day on site at #LCE24 with the focus today being the northern ring ditch, second trench…

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#LCE24
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#LCE24

Work has been progressing well at #LCE24!

Both the ring ditch and the barrow ditch are being cleaned up and further explore by the hardworking volunteers…

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New KAS Van
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New KAS Van

The Society officially has its own branded van! The van allows the Society to bring equipment to site increasing the amount of tools we can use for volunteers, school visits, etc. It also saves us needing to hire expensive vans every season. Hopefully the new stickers will increase awareness of the county as we travel to sites, school visits and exhibitions.

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#FindsFriday Roman Brooch
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#FindsFriday Roman Brooch

For #FindsFriday I thought I would give a sneak peak of what happens after objects are excavated by the society!

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IOTAS events update
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IOTAS events update

The Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society (IOTAS) is pleased to announce that we have two exciting talks coming up in April and May.

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Lower Medway Archaeology Group (LMAG) flint finds
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Lower Medway Archaeology Group (LMAG) flint finds

It's #FindsFriday or should I say #FlintFriday! At the beginning of this week longstanding Maidstone Museums volunteer Angela joined me at our offices in Marsham Street to look over a box of Lower Medway Archaeology Group (LMAG) finds labelled hand axes.

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Kent Speakers List 2024
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Kent Speakers List 2024

A list of speakers for local societies on a wide variety of topics.

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#FindsFriday mystery object
Andy Ward Andy Ward

#FindsFriday mystery object

We have a bit of a #mysteryobject for #FindsFriday this week. Found by our new curatorial volunteer amongst Arthur Harrison's collection is this small copper-alloy coin(?) which appears to have a hole pierced through the centre.

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