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Venturer profile: Suzanne Brown

Venturer profile: Suzanne Brown

“I’ve been digging as an amateur archaeologist for about 10 years now – using annual leave from my full-time job and digging at weekends with my local society. 
Venturer profile: Hugh Fiske

Venturer profile: Hugh Fiske

“I have very recently taken voluntary redundancy after 17 years in the public sector and at 53 was looking for something different to occupy myself with.

Raksha’s Site Diary: Beneath the Streets of London

Our intrepid Field School Manager with news and views from the trowel’s edge… Last week, I mentioned I had been working on a Roman site in the City of London for MoLA. This site…
Gonna need a bigger boat!

Gonna need a bigger boat!

Here at DigVentures we’ve been really fortunate to get some great support from our social media buddies, many of whom have thrown their weight behind the Flag Fen Lives campaign. Over at Digital Digging,…
Group bookings now available!

Group bookings now available!

The DigVentures Flag Fen Lives project is very pleased to announce that we are now able to accommodate group bookings for our field school in summer 2012, from 23rd July -12th August, and can…
Week 2 in the DigVentures House…

Week 2 in the DigVentures House…

Woke up this morning to some great blog coverage from around the internet! Getting shout-outs and re-tweets from our fellow bloggers is so important to us – we need to tell as many people…

Venturer profile: Richard Arnopp

“I have been an interested spectator of archaeology from the fringes since I was very young. However, over the last few years I’ve been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to become involved in…

Crowdfunding Archaeology

Project Director Brendon Wilkins gives a personal viewpoint over on his blog at www.diggingthedirt.com, explaining some of the background to Flag Fen Lives – the first European experiment in crowdfunding and crowdsourcing an archaeological…
Raksha’s Site Diary: the archaeology of the archaeologists

Raksha’s Site Diary: the archaeology of the archaeologists

Our intrepid Field School Manager with news and views from the trowel’s edge… “I have been working for Museum of London Archaeology in the heart of the city, on deep urban stratigraphy sites. I…
Venturer profile: Sarah Clark

Venturer profile: Sarah Clark

I’m a fifty year-old lab assistant working at Southampton University in the Life Sciences department.

Paying it forward: nominations open!

According to Wikipedia (how did we ever live without it?), the expression “pay it forward” is used to describe the concept of asking that a good deed be repaid by having it done to…
Venturer profile: Team Boyd

Venturer profile: Team Boyd

Fiona and Isla Boyd I am the wrong side of fifty, but still have the enthusiasm of a 16 yr old in most things. I love walking in the peaks or my native Scotland,…

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