What secrets lie beneath Priory Park in #Chichester? Find out at our first Spring Talk tomorrow evening! Tuesday 21st January - book here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/spring-t…

Who else is tuning in to this tonight? 🏺

#FlintFriday Flint is the name of the BHAS newsletter, regularly put together by brilliant volunteers and sent out to all our members. Here’s some snippets from the last one, which also features a beautiful piece of cover art by volunteer Jessica.

#FindsFriday These 3 fragments of a decorated Samian bowl were found this summer and fitted together after washing. Samian (or Terra Sigillata) was the most commonly used high quality pottery from Roman Britain. Can anyone here tell us anything more about the decoration?

A lovely day (in the warm!) today processing Iron Age, Bronze Age & Roman pottery finds from our summer dig at Rocky Clump. What a lovely bunch of people to spend a Saturday with! So great to be able to see these finds up close and all cleaned up after the dig :) #Archaeology

Yay! It's official our lovely Gemma Gemma Ward, BA (Hons.), MA, PCIfA 🏛 is a Brighton YAC Leader! We're super grateful to this wonderful archaeologist for sharing all her kindness, skills and knowledge with our lucky members! #youngarchaeologists #volunteering #youngarchaeologistclub YAC

Can you help us raise funds for the #Whitehawk & #Hollingbury Camp Signage Community Project? These areas need new signage for education & information. Let’s celebrate the Neolithic cultural heritage of the #SouthDowns! Please donate & share: gofund.me/245557cf #Sussex

What a find yesterday - Trewhiddle strap-end in silver, 9th century. Found by a metal detectorist in our group, as its silver it will be declared as treasure. Once that process is complete we'll be donating it to the museum. Our first from this period. Delighted 😊 Portable Antiquities & Treasure

Why were wild boar so important in ancient Sussex? This tiny copper-alloy boar (50 BC–100 AD) is one of many found in Sussex - but was it a statue, a sacred object, or something more? Join Dr Reb Ellis-Haken tomorrow for our next Spring Talk! 📅 Tues 4 Feb, 7.30pm via Zoom

This is going to be a big one and a great chance to see what we’ve been up to and how you can help too :)

Join us on Fri 14 Feb for the next BHAS Lecture: The Smallhythe Excavations with speaker Nathalie Cohen from National Trust Archaeology 7.30pm at #Brighton Unitarian Church FREE for BHAS members, £5 non-members. All welcome! (More details in the pic)

⛏️ Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society Day School returns! Sat 15 Feb 10-4 ARCHAEOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES Tutor: Simon Stevens UCL Archaeology South-East Venue: #Patcham Community Centre BHAS Members: £25; non-members: £30. To book contact john.funnell[at]brightonarch[.]org[.]uk

A full class for Archaeology Day School, where we had Simon Stevens from UCL Archaeology South-East giving us an Introduction to #Archaeology Techniques. Thanks Simon! For more archaeology day school dates, see our website: brightonarch.org.uk

Our next local history lecture is this Saturday! ‘What the 60's did for Brighton’ with Speaker David Fisher. Venue - United Reform Church, Hove (entrance in Blatchington Road). Talk starts at 2.30 See you there! (Photo: Royal Pavilion and Museums Brighton & Hove) #Brighton

This happening tomorrow! See you there ✨

Another day of finds processing this weekend, big thanks to all our volunteers for their meticulous work! A wonderful way to spend a Saturday ☀️

MUDLARKING! Just a little reminder about this very exciting event coming up on Saturday in #Lewes (poster beautifully modelled by one of our Archaeology Day School attendees, Jessica!) Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1147391592139 #mudlarking

⭐️BHAS recommends!⭐️ Prehistoric Pottery Saturday 26 April 2025, 10am-4pm Our prehistoric ancestors had clay pots for a wide variety of uses, but how did they make them? Come to this fun hands-on day in Lewes to find out! Tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/prehistoric-…

It’s great to be back at Rocky Clump! ⛏️ Today there were 17 diggers, including 4 first timers! Finds of note: a cylindrical loom whirl, an Iron Age metal hook, 2 polishing stones and 1 whetstone. A great start to our 2025 dig season!

Our find of the week has to be this big chunk of cauldron rim…found by the aptly-named Big John! ⭐️We’ve been lucky all week with the weather here in #Brighton with only a little bit of rain softening the soil for us- perfect! (plus we’ve had lots of cake!)