Brian Hope-Taylor pondering the base of a Bronze Age cinerary urn.
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The Gefrin Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a landmark volume by Roger Miket entitled "Ad Gefrin: Brian Hope-Taylor and His Quest for the Early Medieval Kingdom of Northumbria." Get your copy at the Ad Gefrin Shop in Wooler! #Yeavering
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Our Trustees met on site this morning for a tour led by Trustee Sarah Semple, a wander around Maelmin with Trustee Roger Miket, and—in the afternoon—sat down for a proper meeting. The future of #Yeavering is in good hands! Stay tuned for exciting news out of Yeavering in the months to come.
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The TillVAS Archaeology group came and visited our site today. Thanks for the visit! We’re in the last days of the 2025 #Yeavering dig and are readying for tomorrow’s Trustees meeting.
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We’re reaching the excavation’s final days. Though it’s damp on site, nothing dampens our spirits! Here’s Annabelle, an @arcdurham student, who faithfully helps lead👟 tours of site ☔️ rain or ☀️ shine. She—and all at #Yeavering right now—make our site & its stories come to life. Thanks, Annabelle! 👏😊
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In between the hours excavating, the @arcdurham students at #Yeavering have been enjoying some early medieval games… and donuts 🍩! (Don’t worry - the donuts aren’t 7th-century 😉)
Catch our daily site tour tomorrow at 3pm. #Yeavering #GefrinTrust #Northumberland #DUArchaeology
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It’s the #Yeavering team’s day off. 😊 What better way to spend it than to head over to Holy Island & check in on the 10th (final) year of the DU/DV dig! Dr David Petts @arcdurham talks the team through the reopened trenches. We’ve been so lucky to have both digs run concurrently for a few years!
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The Yeavering excavation team will be taking a well-earned rest tomorrow (Sunday, 7 September). Today’s site tour is at 3pm as usual. See you there!
#DUArchaeology #Yeavering #GefrinTrust #northumbria #edwin
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It’s raining cats🐱 & dogs 🐶 out there! Archaeologists are hearty folk but trenches this wet mean super slippery surfaces.
We’ve cancelled our @gefrintrust site tour for today but will be back at #Yeavering to deliver the usual 3pm tour tomorrow (Thurs, 4 September). Stay dry! ☔️ 💦
Image: @adgefrin
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Amy (PhD researcher at Durham) and Brian (Associate Professor at Eastern Washington University & Durham grad) are hard at work cleaning back the trenches here at #Yeavering. What might they find today? Free site tours run daily at 3pm from now until 18 September. #Northumbria #GefrinTrust
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Jane also snapped a picture of flowers left by a couple in honour of parents who loved this place. A great reminder of the indelible mark that #Yeavering and its landscape have left on so many. What’re your memories of Yeavering?
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One of our Trustees, Jane, stopped by the excavation site this afternoon. The skies look a bit foreboding but the smile on Roger's face tells us that the archaeology is as bright and exciting as usual! #Yeavering
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I had the joy of sitting down with Prof Sarah Semple to hear about her 20-year relationship with The Gefrin Trust, her initial memories of Yeavering, and her favourite time to be on site. Follow @gefrintrust.bsky.social over the next month as the team excavates! #Yeavering #GefrinTrust
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Professor Sarah Semple (Durham University) and team are readying to lay out the trenches at Yeavering for another fantastic season of fieldwork. We can’t wait to see what they get up to! #Yeavering #DurhamArchaeology #GefrinTrust
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Want to learn more about Brian Hope-Taylor’s mid 20th-century excavations at #Yeavering? Have a listen to Roger Miket (Trustee, Gefrin Trust) & Prof Ian Ralston’s (Edinburgh) 2024 Society of Antiquaries of London lecture on Hope-Taylor’s years in Northumberland:
www.youtube.com/live/WC8E69M...
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Listening to an epic rendition of Beowulf in the glow of the grandstand. #FestivalofArchaeology #Yeavering #Beowulf #Northumbria
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We’re still buzzing from our 2025 Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering! Hear from Charlotte and Liam, two of our historical reenactors on site. #festivalofarchaeology #yeavering #adgefrin #northumbria
www.instagram.com/reel/DM7b5bN...
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We’ve had a fantastic 2025 Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering. Thank you to all those who came out to site, to learn and share. Particular thanks to our collaborators @arcdurham @adgefrin @aclereenactment. We’re already planning for next year! #FestivalofArchaeology #Yeavering #Northumbria
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We’ll be highlighting the stories of our Trustees, including Roger Miket, over the next few months. Stay tuned! #GefrinTrust #Yeavering #Northumbria
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We’re here at Yeavering until 4pm! Both the sunshine and Saxons are out in full force! #Yeavering #FestivalofArchaeology #Northumbria
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Another well-attended tour of site. We’ve two final tours today — come out and visit us until 4pm!
#Yeavering #FestivalofArchaeology #EarlyMedievalNorthumberland
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Go say a hello to Stuart in the ACLE reenactment camp and try your hand at milling grain!
#FestivalofArchaeology #Yeavering #EarlyMedievalNorthumberland
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We’re halfway through our second (and final!) day of the Festival of Archaeology at #Yeavering. It’s been brilliant!
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We’ve had a fantastic first day. Join us tomorrow for Day 2 of our Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering, Northumberland. Thanks to our co-organisers Ad Gefrin, Durham Archaeology, and Acle. And most of all—thanks to all who showed up! We had a superb turnout!
#Yeavering #EarlyMedievalNorthumbria
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Geophysical demos continue today and tomorrow. Try your hand at it! #Yeavering #AdGefrin #FestivalofArchaeology
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Our first tour of the day is underway, led by Professor Sarah Semple (Durham), Gefrin Trust trustee and lead site excavator. #Yeavering #EarlyMedievalNorthumberland
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We’re on site and preparations are in full swing. See you at 10am!
@gefrintrust @arcdurham @adgefrin
#Yeavering #FestivalofArchaeology
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Our friends over at Ad Gefrin certainly know how to construct a hall!
See you tomorrow at the Festival of Archaeology! 👋 May your dreams be filled with bygone halls 😴
#Yeavering #AdGefrin #Northumberland
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