Hidden Hindhead event – Thursday 29 July, 10am-4pm
Join us for a closer look at the changing landscape of the dramatic Devil’s Punchbowl and Hindhead Commons as we help show how archaeology can reveal some of the hidden stories locked within the land you walk.
From folklore to follies, farming to finds, turnpikes to tunnels and commons to crosses Hindhead Commons have been a hive of human activity. Though it may look like a magnificent untouched rural wilderness the human hand has sought to tame and control this landscape over thousands of years.
Indeed 10 years ago to the day the road that passed over this landscape connecting London to Portsmouth from Tudor times with a rich history of its own suddenly fell silent as the Hindhead Tunnel opened on time and under budget.
Staff and volunteers from the National Trust, Surrey Archaeological Society, Liss Archaeology, Haslemere Museum, Surrey Arts and the Portable Antiquities scheme will be on site during the day running a range of archaeological activities to help you unlock the colourful stories and events of Hindhead.
Activities will include information stands, guided walks, self-led walks, archaeological scavenger hunts, storytelling, finds handling and much much more.
The Surrey Finds Liaison Officer from the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be joining us and helping with some finds ID, so feel free to bring along any archaeological finds you might have discovered in your garden during lockdown for help identifying and recording them.
We could go on, but why not just come and find out more yourself and see what you might discover?
Guided walk tickets can be booked in advance from Haslemere Museum: https://haslemere-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
– Natalie Savage, NT Visitor Operations & Experience Manager, Hindhead Properties & Leith Hill
From folklore to follies, farming to finds, turnpikes to tunnels and commons to crosses Hindhead Commons have been a hive of human activity. Though it may look like a magnificent untouched rural wilderness the human hand has sought to tame and control this landscape over thousands of years.
Indeed 10 years ago to the day the road that passed over this landscape connecting London to Portsmouth from Tudor times with a rich history of its own suddenly fell silent as the Hindhead Tunnel opened on time and under budget.
Staff and volunteers from the National Trust, Surrey Archaeological Society, Liss Archaeology, Haslemere Museum, Surrey Arts and the Portable Antiquities scheme will be on site during the day running a range of archaeological activities to help you unlock the colourful stories and events of Hindhead.
Activities will include information stands, guided walks, self-led walks, archaeological scavenger hunts, storytelling, finds handling and much much more.
The Surrey Finds Liaison Officer from the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be joining us and helping with some finds ID, so feel free to bring along any archaeological finds you might have discovered in your garden during lockdown for help identifying and recording them.
We could go on, but why not just come and find out more yourself and see what you might discover?
Guided walk tickets can be booked in advance from Haslemere Museum: https://haslemere-museum.arttickets.org.uk/
– Natalie Savage, NT Visitor Operations & Experience Manager, Hindhead Properties & Leith Hill