Ask the Curator: Who was living at Rendlesham?

Featured image: ‘Kendra the Anglo-Saxon Forager’ a volunteer wearing replica Anglo-Saxon clothes and accessories (© Suffolk County Council, taken by Katie Everard). For the third instalment of our “Ask the Curator” series, discover more about the development of the settlement, who was living at Rendlesham and aspects of their daily life such as what they

Ask the Curator: Pyramid mounts at Rendlesham

Featured image: three pyramid mount sword scabbard fittings from Rendlesham on display in the Rendlesham Revealed exhibition at Sutton Hoo, on loan from Ipswich Museum (© Suffolk County Council). For the second article in our new series “Ask the Curator”, we are taking a closer look at the Pyramid Mounts, a type of sword fitting,

Ask the Curator: How have archaeologists revealed Anglo-Saxon Rendlesham?

Featured image: archaeological excavations at Rendlesham in 2022 This new series “Ask the Curator” takes a deep dive into the research that has uncovered Anglo-Saxon Rendlesham, complementing the opening of the new Rendlesham Revealed exhibition at National Trust Sutton Hoo running until 29th October 2023. The first of this series starts at the beginning of

Fieldwalking Survey at Rendlesham 2022

Featured image: fieldwalking with volunteers Last summer, fieldwalking took place at Rendlesham, with volunteers from local primary schools and young people from Suffolk Family Carers, as part of the Rendlesham Revealed project. Tom Cox, a PhD student from University of East Anglia, who helped deliver the fieldwalking is our guest writer this week to tell

Rendlesham behind the scenes: Post-Excavation; a progress update

Featured image: volunteers finishing to process the last of the soil samples to extract finds from the residues The post-excavation processing is drawing to an end. Over the past 6 months, more than 80 volunteers have been hard at work processing all the material from last summer’s Rendlesham Revealed excavations, with training and support from

New exhibition at Sutton Hoo telling the story of Anglo-Saxon Rendlesham

Featured image: viewing the exhibition © Suffolk County Council Now Open! Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of A Kingdom AD 400-800 is a new exhibition now open at the National Trust’s Sutton Hoo 23rd March – 29th October 2023. The exhibition takes visitors on a 400-year journey to reveal how the Anglo-Saxon royal settlement at Rendlesham

Being Anglo-Saxon: Building the replica Ipswich ware kiln

Featured image: Volunteers building the replica Ipswich ware kiln Here is another instalment of the Being Anglo-Saxon series, following the progress of the Rendlesham Revealed experimental archaeology kiln. Faye Minter tells us all about the building of the kiln structure. In summer 2022, a small group of volunteers started building the structure of the kiln,

Geophysics training at Lackford, Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers Project.

Featured image: Volunteer conducting a geophysical survey with multi sensor array cart system (MACS) at Lackford (© Suffolk County Council) Last autumn a geophysical survey was carried out over Suffolk Wildlife Trust land at Lackford in the Lark valley, as part of the Brecks Fen Edge and Rivers project . The fields surveyed were known to

Rendlesham behind the scenes: Post-Excavation; revealing the detail

Featured image:: volunteers in the Cotswold Archaeology warehouse processing and recording the excavated material from Rendlesham After four busy months, the post-excavation work has made excellent progress thanks to the hard work of volunteers processing the material excavated last summer as part of the Rendlesham Revealed project. This week, volunteer Jonathan is our guest writer,

Being Anglo-Saxon: making test bars for the kiln project

Featured image: Volunteers discussing the results of the test bars and pottery making. Another instalment of our Being Anglo-Saxon series following the progress of the Rendlesham Revealed experimental archaeology kiln. Several volunteers made test bars to try to work out the optimum firing temperature of the clay and also to test water absorption. Ruth explains