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Events
Family event
Festival of Archaeology
Bristol’s Brilliant Archaeology
25 July 2026 
11:00 – 16:00 
Blaise Castle House Museum & Estate, Henbury Road, Bristol, BS10 7QS 
Free 
Family event
Festival of Archaeology
Festival of Essex Archaeology and Heritage
23 July 2026
10:00 – 17:00
Cressing Temple Barns, Witham Road, Braintree, Cressing, Essex, CM77 8PD
Free 
Talk
The A417 ‘Missing link’: A Cotswold landscape 12,000 years in the making
20 July 2026
19:00 – 20:30
Winterbourne medieval Barn, Bristol, BS36 1SE
£8.09 
Family event
Festival of Archaeology
The Salisbury Museum’s Festival of Archaeology
18 July 2026 – 19 July 2026
10:00 – 16:00
The Salisbury Museum, 65 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EN
Donation entry 
Open day
Festival of Archaeology
Gloucester Festival of Archaeology Family Day
18 July 2026
10:00 – 16:00
Museum of Gloucester, Brunswick Road, Gloucester, GL1 3HP
No need to book, free to attend 
Family event
Festival of Archaeology
Festival of Archaeology Launch Event 2026
18 July 2026
09:00 – 17:00
Westonbirt, The National Arboretum, Tetbury, GL8 8QS
Free, but booking is required to guarantee entry 
Family event
Pop-up exhibition
First Light Festival
20 June 2026 – 21 June 2026
12:00 – 19:30
South Beach, NR33 0DF
Free 
Family event
Sax Arts Fest
13 June 2026
12:00 – 17:00
High Street, Saxmundham, IP17 1DQ
Free 
Mick Aston annual lecture
Talk
Webinar
Mick Aston Annual Lecture 2026
10 June 2026
19:00 – 20:45
Online
Free 
Careers event
Family event
Pop-up exhibition
Suffolk Show 2026
27 May 2026 – 28 May 2026
08:30 – 17:30
Trinity Park, Felixstowe Road, Ipswich IP3 8UH 
Talk
‘Uncovering Yarmouth’ Community Archaeology Project
15 May 2026
19:30 – 21:00
The Salvation Army Citadel, Tolhouse Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2SQ
£2 
Webinar
Medieval activity around Leiston Abbey: Insights from excavations at Sizewell C
29 April 2026
19:00 – 20:30
Online, via Zoom
Free to book