Elvington and Eythorne Heritage Group are contacting other local heritage groups, societies and organisations across East Kent, offering a visit to our Heritage Centre.

RNLI lifeboat crewmember and Walmer Station historian Colin Varrall talks about the project in which he was involved that led to the plaque's unveiling in the 85th anniversary year of the Dunkirk evacuation.

The Kent Archaeological Society is delighted to congratulate Lord of the Bricks, a Kent-based FIRST LEGO League robotics team, on winning the Kent Regional Robotics Championship.

The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is now open for applications.

Excavations at Randall Manor in Shorne Woods commenced in the Summer of 2006, with the launch of a community archaeology project, part of a Heritage Lottery funded scheme.

The Sheppey Local History Society volunteers with the help of Jon Pratty and James Bell are proud to announce a live online collection page on their website.

The reinterpretation of Maidstone Museum’s Local History Gallery is now open as ‘The Oldham Gallery: Exploring Maidstone’s Past and Present’ after a special launch event was held on Friday evening.

We cannot wait to be at Maidstone Museums this Saturday, 12th April as part of their Local History Fair!

A gentle reminder that we are calling for volunteers to assist in the Library and Archive cataloguing projects. We have two major requirements as we gear up towards a fully accessible catalogue in 2025.

Our curator Andy has been busy repacking the archive from our Trosley Roman villa project (2022-2023).

As part of her year in industry placement, University of Reading student Holly has been illustrating our Ozengell collection. One Holly's favourite items thus far illustrated is this beautiful long rectangular Marzinik Type II.16 buckle with a long, rectangular buckle plate and narrow, D-shaped buckle frame.

This lovely little double snake was found during excavations by the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit (KARU) at Harrietsham Roman Villa located near the Parish church.

Our curator Andy took the latest batch of the #Ozengell Anglo-Saxon collection over to CSI: Sittingbourne for conservation. This will be the final batch the CSI team will work on; including this lovely Early Medieval pot!

We have had a new student work placement, Eleanor with us this week from Invicta Grammar School who has been helping our curator Andy catalogue the Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit Archive.

It's #FindsFriday! For the last #FindsFriday of the year, before the office closes for Christmas we have this lovely 2nd Century AD "Poppyhead" beaker found during excavations at Iwade by Alec Miles.

In 2025 the Archaeology Research Group (ARG) is proposing to host its annual fieldwork forum with the theme of Challenges Facing Kent’s Archaeology.

The KAS Maritime Kent Research Group reports on The Kent Shipbuilding Conference held at Chatham Historic Dockyard on the 7th and 8th November 2024.

It's #FindsFriday and today we have something a little bit special. Our volunteer John has been busy cataloguing the bulk finds from our Trosley Bathhouse excavation from 2023. During this he has come across this interesting little object labelled only as a vitrified fragment.

The Benefact Group, part of the Benefact Trust have a limited draw for nominated charities to receive £5,000 towards Heritage and Art projects.

KAS Deputy Manager Rebecca Fletcher and Archivist Craig Campbell are taking part in the Run Kent half marathon to raise funds for Society projects.