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

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,

Suffolk’s Royal Anglo-Saxon history on show in new exhibition

Featured image: Gilded Horse Harness Mount with garnet and shell decoration, found at Rendlesham (© Suffolk County Council) Rendlesham Revealed: The Heart of A Kingdom AD 400-800 is a new exhibition opening at the National Trust’s Sutton Hoo 23rd March – 29th October 2023, telling the story of an Anglo-Saxon royal settlement in Suffolk, the

Rendlesham behind the scenes: Post-excavation work continues & Mandy’s star finds

Featured image: Mandy holding a piece of Roman Glass The post-excavation work continues, with volunteers processing the excavated material discovered at Rendlesham in summer 2022, as part of our community archaeology project Rendlesham Revealed. This week volunteer Mandy tells us more about her experience and a few of her star finds from the environmental samples. I

Rendlesham behind the scenes: starting the second year of post-excavation processing

Featured image: Animal bone and oyster shell washed and drying after being excavated. (Photo by Graham Allen) Following the second season of excavations at Rendlesham in summer 2022, our volunteers have started the post-excavation work on the excavated material at the Cotswold Archaeology warehouse in Needham Market, as part of our community archaeology project Rendlesham