International Women’s Day 2024
For International Women’s Day we’re looking at women in archaeology, with a very particular link with Folkestone. This just happens happens to coincide with the centenary year of the excavation of East Wear Bay’s Roman Villa too! For International Womens Day we wanted highlight the work of Rosalind Winbolt, who among other sites, worked on […]
The Mystery of the Bronze Age Sword
Can you help Folkestone Museum solve an archaeological mystery? In 1951 a Bronze Age sword was dredged from the sea, about 36.5 metres (40 yards) from the shoreline off the site of the Roman villa at East Wear Bay. The finder, a local fisherman by the name of Mr H. Brice, was advised that the […]