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How To Dig Postholes

Like most professional archaeologists, one of the first features I learned to dig was a posthole.

How To… Dig With the Big Yellow Trowel

There’s a latent perception that archaeologists spend most of their time scratching about the earth with tweezers and paintbrushes, gently unravelling the past crumb-by-painstaking-crumb. The truth is, we save time by getting started with…
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DigVentures and the BBC One Show: Devil Dog Black Shuck Returns!

DigVentures’ massive media moment began this past June with a throw-away comment in a parish newsletter, which grew into a tongue-in-cheek story in the local paper, and then matured into a fully-fledged monster tale…
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Photogrammetry for Archaeologists

Is there anything stinkier than the stinky smell of wet stinking permatrace? Otherwise known as drafting film, the strong, durable and waterproof qualities of ‘permatrace’ make it an absolutely essential piece of an archaeologist’s…
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The Legend of Black Shuck

You know you’re on to a winner when the Daily Mail runs an archaeology story with a question mark in the title. There’s always the hint of an archaeological discovery in there somewhere… but…
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The 15 Best Viking Artefacts…

…you can see at the new British Museum exhibition. As reviews go, the latest write-ups on the British Museum’s blockbuster exhibition haven’t been great. Mark Hudson in the Daily Telegraph described the ‘baffling absences’…
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Vikings – Life and Legend

The British Museum has opened its first major exhibition on Vikings in over 30 years, tailor-made to showcase the brand-spanking new Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery. DigVentures were invited along to the opening, and we sent…
Headland Archaeology at Fulk's Castle

A Knight’s Tale

Over 90% of archaeology that takes place in the UK happens as a result of a planning condition, meaning that developers have to balance the cost of new construction projects against the potential impact…
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Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War Anniversary?

With the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One approaching, the DigVentures ‘Op’s Room’ has been abuzz with plans to help community groups commemorate and investigate the archaeological legacy of the Great…

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Social Contract Archaeology – The DigVentures Model

Freshly accredited as a Registered Organisation by the Institute for Archaeololgists, DigVentures were invited to publish an inaugural address in ‘The Archaeologist’ journal describing why we joined the quality accreditation scheme, and describing some…
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Community Archaeology Comes of Age

Distilling the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman described starting a new business as ‘like throwing yourself off a cliff and assembling the plane on the way down.’ If that’s the…
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The Great War – Black and White or Shades of Grey?

My enduring memory of growing up in the Seventies was that everything that happened prior to 1945 happened in Black and White. It must have. I’d seen the primary evidence in all its monochrome…
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Francis Pryor – What Flag Fen Means to Me

The legendary story of how Francis Pryor didn’t so much discover Flag Fen, as trip over it on the way to the pub, has long been a source of inspiration to weary archaeologists in…

Welcome to… Aisling Serrant

A big welcome to Aisling, the new DV Social Media and Communities intern! A few weeks ago, we waved a tearful goodbye to Polly Heffer, who’s joined the team at Current World Archaeology on…

John Gater Talks Geofizz From Down Under

From the shocking revelation that Phil Harding was once voted Time Team’s sexiest man; to the ‘home goal’ discovery of an apsidal ended villa that turned out to be a football penalty spot. When…

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…

Vince Gaffney – Europe’s Lost World

  Christmas has arrived early at DV, and this video clip is our gift to you! Our friend Professor Vince Gaffney of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham talks about Doggerland, the…

Tony Robinson – Archaeological Storyteller

As the summer season at Flag Fen built to a tremendous crescendo, we were thrilled to host our penultimate DVIP speaker – Time Team’s very own Tony Robinson. There’s a fantastically adorned chair in…

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