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Workington Residents Invited To Join Archaeology Dig At Local Landmark Jane Pit

Residents of Workington are being invited to take part in an archaeological excavation at local landmark Jane Pit, to help unearth more about the town’s past while also contributing to its future. Originally built…

DigVentures Heads To East Yorkshire To Investigate Roman And Iron Age Remains

Archaeology team set to investigate nationally-important site in east Yorkshire A team of archaeologists from DigVentures and the Portable Antiquities Scheme will start work at Elmswell Farms, near Driffield, this August to investigate nationally…

Machrie Moor: Scotland’s Menagerie Of Ancient Monuments

Wherever you go, you can be sure that someone else was there hundreds or thousands of years before you. There are incredible ancient places hiding all around us. Let’s go find them! The Isle…

11 Things We Still Use That Were Invented By The Shakers

People tend to assume the Shakers were boring, rigid and would reject new technology. In fact, the very opposite was true; they came up with so many ideas to improve their lives that their…

New Archaeology Dig In America Will Help Veterans Transition Into Civilian Life – With Support From Nat Geo!

DigVentures is teaming up with American Veterans Archaeological Recovery and National Geographic to launch a new archaeological fieldwork programme in America that supports veterans transitioning back into civilian life.  Together, we’ll be excavating the…

Radiocarbon Dating Confirms Skeletons Found In Vicarage Garden Are Probably Viking

New radiocarbon dating suggests that the 264 skeletons found in a Derbyshire vicarage garden during excavations in the 1970s were probably part of the Viking Great Army after all. Although the remains were initially…

Rosemarkie: A Little Village Full Of Pictish Stones

Wherever you go, you can be sure that someone else was there hundreds or thousands of years before you. There are incredible ancient places hiding all around us. Let’s go find them! Not a…

Amazing Artefacts: This 14,000 Year Old Toy Might Be The World’s First Animation

The internet has fallen in love with this small bone disc marked with a deer on each side. It was made at least 14,000 years ago and when it spins, it looks like the…

No, It’s Not True That People In The Past All Died Before 40

In the past, life was ‘nasty, brutish and short’ and people rarely lived beyond the age of 40. It’s time to call out that nonsense, because it’s simply not true. How long did people…