The Festival of British Archaeology is an annual 16 day event (this year 16–31 July) and aims to encourage visits to “sites of archaeological/historical interest or museums, heritage and resource centres to see archaeology in action and to take part in activities on-site”.

To celebrate, UCL Institute of Archaeology, the fourth largest archaeology collection in the world (behind the Cairo Museum, the British Museum and the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin), held an Open Day on 27 July with many activities throughout the department and tours of their main collections store by Ian Carroll (Collections Manager), one of which I attended.

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