Festival event listing

This self guided creativity walk will highlight the city of York and guide you through exploring its popular sites as well as some hidden gems! There will be both a digital map available to be used on mobile phones throughout the entire festival, as well as a day where physical copies will be passed out! The sites and stops along this walk will focus on historic York as well as highlight the more modern community uses of the sites. This walk will help guide your walk around York and encourage you to experience the history of the city through a creative lens. Each stop will have a creative prompt, either a chance to write a poem, short story or create a small drawing! Be sure to post your finished projects online to social media and use #creativitytrailyork for a chance to be featured in a CBA blogpost!

Join a guide from the Sutton Hoo Society on a guided tour of the Royal Burial Ground at Sutton Hoo. Discover more about the people who were laid to rest here 1400 years ago. Tours are daily at 12pm and 2pm and are free with site admission. Spaces fill quickly, so we'd recommend arriving early to avoid disappointment.

Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of a Kingdom AD 400-800 is a new temporary exhibition sharing the story of an Anglo-Saxon royal settlement in Suffolk, the largest and wealthiest of its time known in England.

Explore the landscape of Sutton Hoo and see how many archaeological features you can spot along the way with our heritage explorer challenge trail. From old track ways to historic buildings- Sutton Hoo is not just the home of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Ground.

The popular Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology returns in July 2023 with over 100 heritage events across the two counties. This year, the Festival will be held between Saturday 1st and Sunday 30th July, running alongside the Council For British Archaeology’s national Festival of Archaeology.

This self guided creativity walk will highlight the city of York and guide you through exploring its popular sites as well as some hidden gems! There will be both a digital map available to be used on mobile phones throughout the entire festival, as well as a day where physical copies will be passed out! The sites and stops along this walk will focus on historic York as well as highlight the more modern community uses of the sites. This walk will help guide your walk around York and encourage you to experience the history of the city through a creative lens. Each stop will have a creative prompt, either a chance to write a poem, short story or create a small drawing! Be sure to post your finished projects online to social media and use #creativitytrailyork for a chance to be featured in a CBA blogpost!

Join a guide from the Sutton Hoo Society on a guided tour of the Royal Burial Ground at Sutton Hoo. Discover more about the people who were laid to rest here 1400 years ago. Tours are daily at 12pm and 2pm and are free with site admission. Spaces fill quickly, so we'd recommend arriving early to avoid disappointment.

The Lutterworth Fieldworking and Archaeological Group previously found numerous clay pipe bowls and fragments (23), 

Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of a Kingdom AD 400-800 is a new temporary exhibition sharing the story of an Anglo-Saxon royal settlement in Suffolk, the largest and wealthiest of its time known in England.

Explore the landscape of Sutton Hoo and see how many archaeological features you can spot along the way with our heritage explorer challenge trail. From old track ways to historic buildings- Sutton Hoo is not just the home of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Ground.