A busy day for our curator today; with help from Archivist Craig all of the Flint from 2024's excavation at the Lees Court Estate has been collected and brought back to our office for cataloguing. Once weighed and counted, the material will be sent to a lithic specialist for reporting!

The 500th update featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

We had a spine chilling, spooktacular time hunting down ten of the most haunted locations in Kent for the Halloween season.

A #mystery object from our work on the Lees Court Estate earlier this year.

The latest update by Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

The team had a great time at today's Maidstone Community Support Centre Open Day!

An article by Lady Sondes on Lees Court Estate features in Capturing Inspiring Stories from Changemakers given to delegates and circulated to 193 Member States of the United Nations and select media outlets during the opening of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Check out the latest from Brook Rural Museum Local Stories exhibition, to which the society proudly provided images of Kentish Hop-pickers from its collection.

Our #illustration student placement Holly has been hard at work finalising some of the Ozengell objects for her portfolio.

Halling Historical Society committee is delighted to announce full success in its long-running (three years!) campaign to get Medway Council to properly conserve the 900-year old Halling Bishop's Palace and the adjacent Halling Lime and Brick Works railway embankment.

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 latest update by Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

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

The latest update by Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh featured on the Centre for Kent History blog at the Canterbury Christ Church University website.

It's #FindsFriday! This bow brooch (so called due to the raised Bow in the centre) is one of a pair excavated by the Thanet Archaeological Unit (now @Trust For Thanet Archaeology) at the Ozengell / Lord of the Manor Cemetery Site.

Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe to be an ancient pub on the site of the multi-million pound Dover Beacon project.

Searching the Thames' riverbed for historical treasures will be possible once again after the Port of London Authority (PLA) reopened applications for permits.

Archivist Craig Campbell and Deputy General Manager Rebecca Fletcher both finishing under 2 hours in the Kent Half marathon to raise funds towards Society Projects.

The latest issue of the KAS Magazine is available now to Society Members.

It's #FindsFriday! Check out our Curator as he discusses a small 4th to mid 5th century Roman military buckle found by metal detectorist Neil Green during Studying History and Archaeology in Lympne's recent excavation, at which the KAS assisted. Andy is in the process of cataloguing all of the registered finds from 2024 ahead of planned publication in 2025.