2025 Archaeological Achievement Awards
Nominations are now open
Nominations for the 2025 Archaeological Achievement Awards formally open on Saturday 19 July as part of the CBA's Festival of Archaeology launch event at the National Trust's Divis Mountain property in Northern Ireland.
Nomination guidance and forms are available for the five main awards categories. The winners of each category will then also be put forward for the annual Outstanding Achievement Award. To help you prepare your nomination, there are a number of webinars and drop-in clinics available where you can find out more about the nomination process.
The deadline for nominations is 12 noon, Wednesday 3 September 2025.
2023 Archaeological Achievement Award Trophies, made by Lasers for Us. Photo: Adam Shaw
Awards Ceremony
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Archaeological Achievement Awards Ceremony will take place in the Great Hall at Queen's University Belfast on Friday 28 November.
Previous Award Winners
Find out more about the projects and individuals that have won awards, or been highly commended and be inspired to submit your own nomination.
About the Awards
Formerly the British Archaeology Awards, the awards are coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) with the support of a judging panel and aim to celebrate archaeological achievements from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. To reflect this change, we have renamed the awards the Archaeological Achievement Awards.
There are 5 award categories and one overall outstanding achievement award with an emphasis on a range of cross-cutting themes that are designed to show how archaeology relates to wider society, health and wellbeing, and place. The awards are judged by representatives from across the sector.
Award Categories
The five award categories are:
- Outstanding Achievement Award
- Archaeology and Sustainability
- Public Dissemination or Presentation
- Engagement and Participation
- Early Career Archaeologist
- Learning, Training and Skills
