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ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE NATIONAL TRUST
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Castlerigg stone circle, Cumbria

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Archaeology

Archaeology seeks to understand how people lived in the past by studying the ways they interacted with the natural and built environment. Human influence has moulded virtually the entire landscape we know today; its impact upon National Trust properties and estates is both important and revealing.

More than 45,000 archaeological sites are recorded in the Trust's own Sites and Monuments database. This is the largest privately owned collection in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. But these don't exist in a vacuum, and our archaeologists get involved in the management of all the Trust's historical and natural places.

For more information about Archaeology in the National Trust, please email guy.salkeld@nationaltrust.org.uk
Family visiting Corfe Castle in Dorset
 Places to visit timeline
Our archaeological sites and treasures of over 500,000 years of history.
 
Dunseverick Castle on an outcrop on the Antrim Coast in Northern Ireland

Meet an archaeologist
Meet Malachy Conway and learn about his work.

 
Winter solstice at Stonehenge

The Stonehenge project
Find out more about the plans to transform the visitor experience at this site.

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