This year’s Festival of Archaeology at Salisbury Museum will feature demonstrations from experiential archaeology and living history company Pario Gallico about mediaeval paints and pigments and a workshop about the tools and techniques of mediaeval Salisbury cutlers.

There will also be a talk by stonemason Andrew Ziminski and a talk by Cotswold Archaeology’s Steve Bush, project leader of the excavations of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery discovered on the site of a new housing development on Netherhampton Road in Harnham.

The two-day event will take place on Saturday, July 22 and Sunday, July 23.

Representatives from more than ten archaeological and historical organisations will be present, including those from the College of Chivalry, the Ancient Wessex Network, Wiltshire Museum and the Young Archaeologists Club, Cranborne Chase AONB, Companions of the Longbow and the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Salisbury Museum director Adrian Green will be running exclusive Behind the Scenes tours over the festival weekend with to showcase the museum’s redevelopment project, which the museum describes as a “unique opportunity to see areas that have been opened up for the first time in 40 years.”