Spring cleaning and dig fashion

Spring cleaning and dig fashion

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…

Venturer profile: Gill Osler

Venturer profile: Gill Osler

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…

Venturer profile: Rita Baker

Venturer profile: Rita Baker

  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…

Polly digs…jobs!

Polly digs…jobs!

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…

From grubby princess to a….FROG

From grubby princess to a….FROG

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?

No room for archaeology?

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?

Crowdfunding the past: is this the future of archaeology?

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…

Venturer profile: John Cooper

Venturer profile: John Cooper

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…

Raksha Dave DigVentures

Tools down for Time Team: Raksha Dave on the end of an era and her new adventure

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…

Here’s to absent friends

Here’s to absent friends

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…

Liquid History – February 15th & 16th

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…

Out and About with… Matt Juddery

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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