The suspected ‘witch bottle’ unearthed at a house in Cliftonville features in a video by KMTV.

A short video from our curator over on TikTok (Kent Archaeological Society) showing how to identify a Roman coin, using a replica Sestertius of Domitian who was Roman emperor from 81 - 96 AD.

This latest in the series of online talks hosted by the KAS features Andrew Mayfield discussing the history of Shorne Woods Country Park, near Gravesend, a series of community archaeology excavations from 2006-2015 and the work to further research and report on the former home of a Sheriff of Kent.

Join our society Curator this as he discusses some objects being taken for x-rays next week and why this is so important!

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An online discussion with Dr Simon Elliott FSA about Septimius Severus, the great warrior emperor from North Africa who died in York in AD 211 after spending the last three years of his life trying to conquer the far north of Britain.

An online talk by Tad Taberer on the discovery of the shipwreck of the SS T.R. Thompson, of diving and recording the historic steamer and of the incredible connections that followed.

The latest in the series on online talks hosted by the KAS, featuring KAS Curator Andy Ward discussing the Anglo-Saxon Ozengell Collection.

Archaeology in action! The ankle breaker was a nasty feature of Roman defences designed to snap the ankles of anyone attacking their strongholds! An ongoing excavation at Lympne with @kentarchaeologicalsociety_kas may have unearthed the remains of one such defence, outside of a Roman fort that overlooked the English Channel. Featuring Dr Simon Elliott.

Richard Taylor shows off a Iron Age coin discovered at Lympne in southeast Kent, not far from the Channel. It reveals how people have been living and trading (with coinage) in this part of Britain since Iron Age times, before the Romans.

Sorting through Roman Ceramic Building Material from Lympne!

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An online talk by Philip Smither on the reinvestigation of Roman Richborough.

An online talk by Thomas Booth, Senior Laboratory Research Scientist at Skoglund Lab Ancient Genomics Laboratory, on ancient DNA and what we have learned about Britain 15,000-2000 years ago.

General Manager Richard Taylor explaining some of the finds we recovered during our community excavation on the Lees Court Estate in 2023; valiantly joined by site dog Gus!

Charles Shee discusses the history and archaeology at the Archbishop's Palace in Otford and what the future plans are.

A playlist of some of the videos from the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) Old House Project working party at Boxley Abbey; a project in association with the KAS, Maidstone Area Archaeological Group (MAAG), and Hastings Area Archaeological Research Group (HAARG).

For a week in July 2022, 98 volunteers, specialists and staff of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) gathered to help at the Old House Project, and neighbouring Boxley Abbey in Kent.

A recording of the talk the KAS discussing the work of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings at the Old House, Boxley supported by the Historic Buildings Special Interest Group.

The Kent Maps Online Project now has a YouTube Channel.

In July 2021, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings returned to Boxley Abbey in Kent for a week of hands-on learning, site visits and barbecues!

This film is about the things we do in Smarden as a local history group: our talks programme, the way in which we catalogue and preserve archives in our Heritage Centre, our research projects, our interaction with the village and the services we provide to researchers and other groups like ours.