Festival event listing

Finds Day and hands - on archaeology for families to enjoy. Bring along your finds, from your garden, from fields and the seaside.

Travel back to the Iron Age in this celebration of the world of the Iceni, an Iron Age community that inhabited present day East Anglia and subject of a free display in the Coin Gallery. Enjoy object handling, make a plaster coin to take away, or a chocolate one to eat! Have a go at coin striking and gather round for Storytelling with Dave Tong, the Yarnsmith or Norwich.

This is a free talk by Oxford City Council's Archeologist, David Radford. David will talk about some of the exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Oxford over the last year, including evidence for prehistoric activity and Cardinal Wolsey’s lost college at Frewin Hall, a suspiciously large Saxo-Norman ditch at Castle Hill House and a newly discovered Parliamentarian Civil War redoubt at Headington Hill.

From Ice Age beginnings to Roman remains, there’s a whole lot of history to be unravelled in the area around Wittenham Clumps.

Come and see displays on the history and archaeology of the village of Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire, from the Mesolithic to Modern periods in our Pop-up Museum. Explore the current findings from the Archaeological Research Project undertaken in the village since 2008, including evidence for a Roman settlement, large Saxon village, and the growth of the settlement into a town during the medieval period, and then subsequent collapse into a village by the end of 14th century. The museum will include finds material on display which has been recovered from excavations in the village.

Get ready to help uncover the past at the Museum of Oxford in honour of 2022’s Festival of Archaeology! Join our archaeologists for a family-friendly gallery trail, mini excavations, object handling and more! No need to book- just come along!