The Bamburgh Research Project has been investigating Bamburgh since 1997 and is offering a short tour through the 3000 years of archaeology and history!
People have lived at Bamburgh since the late Bronze Age and we even found one of there homes a prehistoric building called a roundhouse in 2020.
Bamburgh was one of the most important palace sites of the kings of the Kingdom of Northumbria.
We have many treasures from that time from exquisitely decorated gold artefacts to sophisticated pattern welded swords that would have been wielded in defence of Bamburgh around one thousand three hundred years ago.
After being the home of the Earls of Northumbria in the Viking Age, and home to Uhtred of Bamburgh, it became a castle that withstood siege and attack many times from the eleventh century to the 1464 when it fell to gunfire in the Wars of the Roses.
This tour takes place outside and starts at the Chapel (opposite the State Room Entrance) and takes place every day at 12pm and 3pm (except Saturdays) until and including Friday 18th July. Each tour last approximately 45 mins – 60 mins.
This is included in your admission ticket.
Bamburgh Castle reserve the right to cancel or postpone this event
