Author: Tim Lunt

Thursday 2nd October 2025 ‘Discovering Avebury – landscape and people‘ Dr Nick Snashall, National Trust Archaeologist Avebury, its ancient stones[…]

Many of the archaeological processes and tools utilised for understanding historic land based sites are not available underwater. This compromises[…]

Environmental archaeologists have mostly relied on pollen survival in cores for interpretation of land use history and for 30 years[…]

Avebury, its ancient stones and burial mounds have been the subject of speculation and exploration for centuries. In this talk[…]

Thursday 10th October 2024 ‘The Temperance Movement in Bath and Bristol’ Alan Clarke, Historian Taking the pledge for temperance was[…]

The chance discovery of the ship in the centre of Newport led to a major excavation project in 2002/3 to[…]

Martin Papworth retired in 2024 after 38 years with the National Trust as their archaeologist in Wessex and this talk[…]

The spread of monasticism in the Dark Ages had a lasting impact on European history, particularly in the preservation of[…]

Go to any ancient building and there will often be exciting and romantic stories of secret passages to distant places,[…]