#FindsFriday: Roman paw print
It's #FindsFriday! Our curator has been busy cataloguing more of the Lympne excavation archive from last year, and today's find shows the importance of a secondary sort off site.
#FindsFriday: Bartman Jug
One of the objects the society has brought along to this year's Kent County Show is this lovely Bartman Jug reportedly found during Peter Tester's excavations at Leeds Priory in the 1970s.
Kent County Show and tell!
It's time to countdown to this years Kent County Show! Only one more day to the gates open! The KAS will be returning for the first time since 2008. We cannot wait to showcase some of the wonderful items in our collection with the thousands of visitors who will grace the Kent County Show across the 5th, 6th and 7th July!
#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.
Minster Roman villa finds
Its #MuseumMonday! As part of our ongoing highlight of objects in our temporary display at Maidstone Museums we are focusing on one of the society's first training excavations.
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- Allen Grove Local History Fund
- Archaeology Research Group
- Beaney House of Art and Knowledge
- Bifrons
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
- Bronze Age
- Canterbury
- Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT)
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- Centre for Kent History and Heritage
- Ceramics
- Charing
- Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA)
- Chatham
- Chatham Historic Dockyard
- Church History
- Coins
- Conservation
- Council for British Archaeology
- Cranbrook Museum & Local History Society
- Deal
- Dover
- Dover Archaeological Group
- Education
- Elham
- Excavations
- Exhibitions
- Farningham & Eynsford Local History Society (FELHS)
- Faversham
- Flint
- Glassware
- Hartlip
- Heritage
- Historic Buildings Research Group
- History & Archives Research Group
- Hop Picking
- Illustrations
- Imaging
- Iron Age
- Isle of Thanet
- Isle of Thanet Archaeological Society (IOTAS)
- Jewelry
- KAS Collections
- KAS Library
- Kent & Canterbury History and Heritage
- Kent Archaeological Field School (KAFS)
- Kent Archaeological Society
- Kent County Council
- Kent County Show
- Kent Defences Research Group
- Kent Messenger
- Landscape Explorers Group in South East (LEGISE)
- Lees Court Estate
- Lees Court Estate Project
- Little Chart
- London
- Lullingstone
- Lympne
- Maidstone
- Maidstone Carriage Museum
- Maidstone Community Support Center
- Maidstone Museum
- Margate
- Maritime
- Maritime Kent Special Interest Group
- Medieval
- Metal Detecting
- Military History
- Modern
- Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA)
- Ozengell
- Place Names Research Group
- Prehistoric
- Ramsgate
- River Medway
- Roman
- Romney Marsh
- Sarre
- Selling
- Shoreham
- Shoreham & District Historical Society
- Shorne Woods Archaeology Group (SWAG)
- Smarden
- Smarden Local History Society
- Society Collections
- Southend
- Southend Central Museum
- Students
- Studying History & Archaeology in Lympne (SHAL)
- Sutton Valence
- Swansea University
- The Faversham Society
- Thirsk Prize
- Tonbridge
- Tourism and Leisure
- Trottiscliffe
- Tyne and Wear
- Volunteering
- Weaponry
- Westwell
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