Tweets from a Norman castle and a Tudor home in the South Downs. We've a museum of archaeology too. Part of @sussex_society (1846).
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Just in time for #Christmas!
17 Dec 2021
Membership of our historic organisation is a wonderful gift & comes with lots of goodies including access to our 6 historic sites, magazine subscription and half price entry to @EnglishHeritage properties in #Sussex, #Kent & #Hampshire. You can buy online! sussexpast.co.uk/membership/
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
10 Dec 2021
We’ve hosted some wonderful talks recently & there’s another one this Tuesday, 14th Dec. Join us online to hear Dr Jonathan Foyle talk #archaeology & how it can help us learn more about Anne of Cleves. It’s quite a detective story! Book here: Sussexpast.co.uk/whats-on/
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What a wonderful endorsement!
10 Dec 2021
Stuck for a Christmas gift for the Sussex-history-loving loved one in your life? Want to help @sussex_society, Britain's oldest county archaeological society? Love castles?
Then WOW is it your lucky day!!!! x.com/sussex_society/status/…
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This #Christmas give a special #gift - a bespoke inscription carved into the steps of #Lewes Castle. As historian Tom Holland says, your words will be “written into #Sussex’s history”. It comes with a year’s @sussex_society membership too!
sussexpast.co.uk/adopt-a-uni…
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Join us on Wednesday 8th December. 7:30pm online. Tickets are £5 or free for members of The Sussex Archaeological Society.
Book here: sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-g…
We look forward to welcoming you!
3 Dec 2021
Next in our online talks is Dr Stuart Needham.
Stuart will deliver a highly #anticipated talk of the results from the People of the Heath project. This #project focuses on the #prehistoric #monument complex in Petersfield, dating to the #EarlyBronze Age between 2200 and 1500 BC
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
1 Dec 2021
This is the link:
sussexpast.co.uk/adopt-a-uni……
Your tessera will be in situ from the Palace's Cupid mosaic and as well as his little googly face, we'll send a additional pic so you can visit and (hopefully) identify him/her.
1 Dec 2021
WE DID IT!!
We actually set up an adoption scheme for tesserae!🤩
So, give us a call, and adopt your own pet tessera. We'll send you a massive thank you and a pic of your new pal (*complete with googly eyes*).
This is the only Christmas present anybody ever needs
Link in 🧵👇
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
1 Dec 2021
With #ambitious plans for the#future, we’re strengthening our #leadership #team with two new senior appointments. A warm welcome to @LeanneOBoyle as Head of #HistoricProperties, and Tim Ridgway as Head of #MarketingCommunications.
Read more here: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
29 Nov 2021
No truer daughter of Sussex than @Tweetisaurus... x.com/LewesCastle/status/146…
We still have some spaces left in our talk tomorrow night! This is bound to be incredibly popular as @Tweetisaurus will discuss the dinosaurs of the Weald, the state of knowledge today, and the methods being used to put flesh on the bones of these historic discoveries!
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We still have some spaces left in our talk tomorrow night! This is bound to be incredibly popular as @Tweetisaurus will discuss the dinosaurs of the Weald, the state of knowledge today, and the methods being used to put flesh on the bones of these historic discoveries!
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Book online now. Tuesday 30th November, 7.30pm
sussexpast.co.uk/event/gideo…
Tickets just £5, or free for members of The Sussex Archaeological Society.
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
29 Nov 2021
A stunning morning at the @romanpalace gardens with a light touch of snow!
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
29 Nov 2021
In 1940 there was a frenzy of activity across Britain to install new defences in anticipation of a Nazi invasion.
Across Seven Sisters Country Park, you can still see the remnants of these defences in the form of pillboxes and Dragon's Teeth.
#SevenSistersCountryPark
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
20 Nov 2021
Gideon Mantell and the Dinosaurs of the Weald, 30 November 2021, 7:30pm leweshistory.org.uk/2021/11/…
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These #artefacts are Iron barbed hunting arrows. During the #medieval era, #hunting not only provided food but was a popular past time amongst the #wealthy. The entitlements to hunt were restricted to the #privileged. These arrows were discovered in Hangleton and #Lewes, #Sussex
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
26 Nov 2021
Book now for your place for this lecture on 30/11/21
26 Nov 2021
Next in our series of online talks, we introduce Dr Susannah Maidment who is a #dinosaur researcher and the #curator of #fossil archosaurs at the @NHM_London. She has made appearances on TV, radio and even named many #species!
Visit the link to book!
sussexpast.co.uk/event/gideo…
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
28 Nov 2021
Today’s theme for #Museum30 is #study. This is a #mathematics textbook and was #published in 1566 by John Awdely. It was found ‘lost’ behind #Broadhurst #Manor in 1925. If you look carefully, you might make out the text!
This artefact is on display at @LewesCastle!
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
26 Nov 2021
Next in our series of online talks, we introduce Dr Susannah Maidment who is a #dinosaur researcher and the #curator of #fossil archosaurs at the @NHM_London. She has made appearances on TV, radio and even named many #species!
Visit the link to book!
sussexpast.co.uk/event/gideo…
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Lewes Castle & Museum and Anne of Cleves House retweeted
26 Nov 2021
Want to avoid the mayhem of #BlackFriday?
#Escape to our historic #Sussex sites and #explore the gardens of @MichelhamPriory, the Long Man of Wilmington, the heights of @LewesCastle, and the fascinating @romanpalace.
For more info visit: sussexpast.co.uk/our-histori…
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