Protecting Norfolk’s history for people to enjoy everyday
We work with local communities to save Norfolk’s irreplaceable historic sites and to share them with everyone.
St Benet’s Abbey gatehouse and the mill from the ponds. Photograph: Nick Stone.
About NAT
NAT is a local conservation charity which aims to protect Norfolk’s significant archaeological or historic sites at risk. We take monuments into our care, repair them, provide interpretation, and open them for everyone to enjoy.
We actively engage with local communities so that they can be involved in the future conservation of the sites that they treasure.
We rely on grants and donations to fund our work – looking after our heritage is an expensive business.
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NAT’s work is guided by values of sustainability, action, accessibility and community. Explore here how you can get involved in our projects and campaigns.
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Caistor St Edmund Roman Town. Photograph: Nick Stone.
News and events
News
Seahenge: A Journey
Most of human history is, in fact, prehistoric. That is, before the Romans, our ancestors lived in societies that did not write things down. To find these ancestors we have to look across our landscapes, gather data, and use our imaginations. Sky widens, and the chain...
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Back to the Anglo-Saxons
As NAT members will know, as part of the Heritage Lottery funded Imagined Land project last year, people living near Burnham Norton friary came together and dug test-pits, which produced all sorts of material, from medieval pottery through to pennies from the 1980s!...
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St Benet’s Abbey: 1000 years!
2019 is the 1000th year since the foundation of St Benet’s Abbey – quite an amazing thought, and well worth celebrating. The Friends of St Benet’s Abbey (TFoSBA) are taking forward an ambitious Heritage Lottery-funded project this year which will explore the long...
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Onwards and Upwards
Norfolk Archaeological Trust celebrates National Lottery grant to create a sustainable future for monuments in its care. Norfolk Archaeological Trust has received a National Lottery grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). Made possible by National Lottery players,...
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Burgh Castle Almanac Project at the Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail
The Burgh Castle Almanac group has created an installation which will be on display at the Waveney Valley Sculpture Trail opening on Friday August 2. Burgh Castle Almanac is an archaeology and mental health project where a group of local people walk with intent at...
read moreSt Benet’s Abbey 1000 years! events in August
Celebrations of 1000 years of St Benet’s Abbey continue during August with a free exhibition at St Catherine’s Church Ludham. After your visit to the exhibition, don’t miss a visit to the Abbey where you can see larger-than-life willow sculptures of monks hurrying...
read moreTide Jetty – Theatre at Burgh Castle
Eastern Angles Bring Theatre to Burgh Castle Fort 22nd – 25th May After a successful tour across the East of England, Eastern Angles Theatre Company are bringing their production of The Tide Jetty by Tony Ramsay to Burgh Castle Fort this May. The show is a love story...
read moreBurnham Norton Friary. Photograph: Nick Stone.