Rainham is one of the Medway Towns in North Kent which also includes Gillingham, Chatham and Rochester.

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

The society normally holds monthly meetings and regular talks at Shepherdswell Village Hall.

What were people doing in your village/part of town 50/100/500 years ago, and how has the landscape influenced development? The group meet on the 1st & 3rd Friday of the month at 2pm.

Founded in 1920, Swansea University is a research-led institution with an excellent reputation for the quality of its student experience.

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!

Make new friends, join the community and immerse yourself in the fascinating history of the Kent village of Wye and Wye College.

Founded in 1841, The London Library is one of the world's leading literary institutions. We house a collection of around one million volumes.

Our friend Dana Goodburn-Brown who runs CSI: Sittingbourne and has been busy conserving our #ozengell Early Medieval collection has put forward a Go Fund Me to carry out more investigative conservation and knowledge dissemination on a number of Anglo-Saxon swords.

Following on from our email sent on the 28th June 2024, we have to remind you that we have made the decision to make Archaeologia Cantiana a digital publication from 2025 starting with volume 146.

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.

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

What do we think this might be? Similar to an item we posted regarding our Roman site at Trossley this as yet unidentified item features green fracturing material that on first glance appears to be glass.

What a fascinating archaeological find from Kent! The wonderful Early Medieval Kingsdown Brooch, currently on housed at National Museums Liverpool as part of the Faussett Collection.

The skeleton of a Bronze Age woman is set to be archived in a museum after being unearthed at a Kent building site.

It's #findsfriday! Further to the work our curator has been carrying out on the "witchbottle" from Cliftonville, James Elliot Senior Radiographer at Canterbury Christ Church University has been "excavating" the CT scan data from Laurel Dental Practice.

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

Don't forget to check out Digging for Britain tonight at at 8pm on BBC Two to see the wonderful sword discovered in the county by a metal detectorist, and excavated by Isle Heritage CIC and the Dover Archaeological Group revealing a wealth of buried grave goods.

An interesting outing for our Curator Andy today! Thanks to the wonderful team at Laurel Dental Practice in Margate we have been able to undertake a cone beam CT scan of the Cliftonville Witch Bottle, found by Randa Kerchef in her home in 2024.

Gill Bromley is gathering reminiscences which will be passed to Smarden Local History Society for the archives.