About

CBA Festival of Archaeology 2022

Discover the archaeology that is all around you by exploring your local area and the stories of the people and communities who lived there.

We want you to help us celebrate local sites, stories and the people who lived and shaped our local places. Archaeology is a great tool to help you do this and to find out more about places through time.

How have they changed and how do we use them today?

Who lived and worked there in the past and do we use them in the same way today?

What can you see today that would have been in the landscape 10, 100 or even a 1,000 years ago?

Help support the Festival

Over the last 30 years the Festival of Archaeology has grown from a one-day event to over 2 weeks with 100s of events. We are grateful for all the support we have received over the years from our event organisers, funders, CBA members and the public to help the Festival become the biggest celebration of archaeology in the UK.

To make the Festival even better in the future we need your help. We would like to be able to deliver more events ourselves and provide more help and support to our event organisers so that an even bigger audience can enjoy and be inspired by archaeology.

The Festival of Archaeology is coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology in partnership with Historic England. The Festival is also supported by Cadw, English Heritage, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Towergate Insurance. The Festival of Archaeology is also part of European Archaeology Days.