Join the CBA for a family fun-filled finale to this year's amazing Festival of Archaeology at the National Trust's Hardwick Hall, celebrating archaeology & community through hands-on and awe-inspiring activities for all!
In addition to actual test pits that visitors can have a go at excavating, there will be re-enactors retelling the life of Bess of Hardwick, hands-on weaving and quill & ink-writing activities, loom weaving, family-friendly joust training for the youngsters and a wandering minstrel playing all the greatest hits of the 1590's!
All Day Activities
- Heritage Marketplace Stalls
- CBA & YAC Stalls
- Tudor Jousting
- Anna ‘the servant’ - Spinning wool, distaff spinning, blackwork embroidery
- Timoth Pusey, Secretary to Bess of Hardwick – Have-a-go Secretary-hand writing with quill and ink
- Wandering Minstrel
- ‘Slightly Warped’ - Loom weaving demos/Hava-a-go
- Sculpture Tours
- Stone Masons & Heritage Roofers and Clumber Joiners
Scheduled Activities
10:30am - Welcome to Hardwick
10:30 – 12:30pm - Test-Pitting
11:00 – 11:30am - ‘The Life of Bess of Hardwick’, as told by Timothy Pusey
11:30 – 12:00pm - Medieval Minstrel performance
12:30 – 13:00 - ‘The Life of Bess of Hardwick’, as told by Timothy Pusey
13:00 – 13:30 - Medieval Minstrel performance
13:30 – 15:00 - Discover Hardwick Tour
13:30 – 15:30 - Test-Pitting
14:30 – 15:00 - Medieval Minstrel performance
15:00 – 15:30 - ‘The Life of Bess of Hardwick’, as told by Timothy Pusey
16:00 - Closing
Images ©National Trust Images/John Millar
Miss Anna
Timothy Pusey, Secretary to Bess of Hardwick
The Skill of Secretary Hand
Kid Friendly Jousting Equipment