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What not to wear: On Site Edition Lucy Shipley tells us all about the best clothes to wear on a dig There was actual sunshine this weekend. There were birds singing. There was a…
Gill Osler Gill joined us last year at Flag Fen and discovered some amazing finds… “I was privileged to find a flint scatter and dead hedge last year at Flag Fen. This was exciting…
Rita Baker Rita tells us about how she came to love archaeology and why she can’t wait to dig with us this year “I am no archaeologist but I have a lifelong love…
Welcome to our new blog series called ‘Polly digs…’ , in which we chart the highs and lows of DigVentures’ own social media and community intern on her mission to find a job in…
DigVenturer Anne-Marie tells us all about her time on the March Dirty Weekend and why she loved becoming a FROG Just a little bit of Liquid History with DigVentures and the Thames Discovery Programme……
No room for archaeology? Archaeology is like an iceberg, with excavation being just the bit above the water line. Archives are one of the hidden costs (like post-ex analysis and publication) that lurk below…
Crowdfunding the past: is this the future of archaeology? DigVentures launches new archaeology crowdfunding platform The rise of crowdfunding in the United Kingdom has taken another step forward as UK-based DigVentures launches the world’s…
John Cooper DigVenturer John came to Flag Fen last year. Here he tells us why he is looking forward to coming back for more… “I joined the Time Team club as a new…
DigVentures Field School Manager and Time Team archaeologist Raksha Dave advises us all to switch off the remote and make our own adventure… It’s the end of an era, a watershed, a seminal moment…
We’ve been thinking a lot lately about career paths in archaeology. Mostly because we’re staffing up for our summer site, and we’ve lost some of the team to other professions. You can set your…
Valentines day weekend on the Thames: the sun shone, the water glistened, and we fell head over heels for some of the best foreshore archaeology we’d seen in a long long time. Joining the…
Indiana Jones. Need I say more? You hear that theme music and you know you’re in for an hour and half of whips, last-minute hat grabbing and Nazis. But my love of digging up…
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