Nominations for the 2024 Archaeological Achievement Awards will be formally launched on Saturday 13 July during the opening event of the Festival of Archaeology at the Scottish Crannog Centre, Perthshire, Scotland.
Announcing the winners of the 2023 Archaeological Achievement Awards
2023 Archaeological Achievement Award Trophies, made by Lasers for Us. Photo: Adam Shaw
We're delighted to announce the winners of the Archaeological Achievement Awards 2023! The ceremony was held at the prestigious De Grey Rooms in York, led by the CBA President, public archaeologist and broadcaster, Raksha Dave. We were also pleased to welcome our wonderful guest speakers, Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central and Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Archaeology, Barney Sloane from Historic England and Peter Hinton from Cifa who spoke about the future of archaeology, and Dr Jim Leary, who gave an entertaining talk about the history of travel, based on his recent book, Footmarks: A Journey into our Restless Past.
We'd like to say a huge congratulations to all of our shortlistees, highly commended entries and winners of the Archaeological Achievement Awards. We'd also like to say a huge thank you to all our judges, who did a fantastic job reviewing the nominations and shortlisting the amazing candidates, as well as our funders and sponsors, without whom the awards simply wouldn't have been possible.
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.