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What a day we had this past Saturday! About 200 visitors came to see us - double the number we welcomed at our first Heritage Open Day two years ago. It was wonderful to bring together all the different strands of our project Coins and Crosses: Seeking the Anglo-Saxons in Winfarthing and Waveney, which is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. At this year's event, visitors could: See recent local metal detecting finds and speak with detectorists Joe Edwards-Gill and Nick Bateman Get...

As part of our project Coins and Crosses: Seeking the Anglo-Saxons in Winfarthing and Waveney we are hosting a series of 5 talks throughout autumn 2026. Dr Tom Lucking kicked off the series last night (10th September), speaking to a sold-out room about how he came to find the Winfarthing treasure, and how the discovery of a high-status Anglo-Saxon grave has added to our understanding of the period. Chair of the Winfarthing Anglo-Saxon Project introducing Dr Tom Lucking A big thank you to Tom...

Five weeks have whizzed by and all 10 of the Coins and Crosses creative sessions at De Lucy House in Diss and Oak Lodge in Attleborough with Suffolk Artlink have taken place. There has been painting, poetry, and pottery, and we look forward to displaying what everyone has made at our Heritage Open Day event in September. We have loved seeing pictures and hearing comments from people who have taken part and created things inspired by the Winfarthing finds: ‘The group has changed, it's brought...