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Site Diary: The Rain in Spain Falls Mainly on the Plane

Picture this: you’re sitting at a beachside café, feet up, cold bevvie in hand, watching a sunset and talking endless amounts of nonsense with your friends. The table is strewn with the remnants of…

Shovel picnics, or educational rescue archaeology?

An American landowner is selling off plots of land with ‘guaranteed archaeology’ to people who want to come and dig them up. Is this really a good thing for public archaeology? In the United…

Interview with a Space Archaeologist

Boldly going where no man, woman, child or dog has gone before, Dr Alice Gorman has been involved in the establishment of Space Archaeology as a sub-discipline. She’s also an out-of-this world authority on…

Victory in the Welsh Streets! Crowdfunding Saves Neighbourhood from Demolition

Civic crowdfunding has proved a powerful point: historic neighbourhoods can be saved from demolition and affordably regenerated, instead of expensively rebuilt. DigVenture’s crowdfunding partners SAVE Britain’s Heritage have won their hard-fought inquiry to preserve…

1,000 year old food bank discovered in North America

The Feeding Britain report is making an impact across the country today – but were there food banks in the past? There is surprisingly very little information easily available about food banks in ancient…

Crowdsourcing Archaeology: An Interview with MicroPasts

If like us you’re interested (or even obsessed!) with all things innovative and archaeological, you’ll probably have noticed the new MicroPasts project making a huge impact over the past few months. DV have been…

Mick Aston’s Advice to Would-be Archaeologists

We’ve been reflecting on Mick Aston’s legacy as an outstanding archaeologist, outspoken educator, and overall cool cat. DigVentures was started with a huge amount of inspiration from the ‘Aston Approach’ to learning, doing, and…

First stop: Finland! Crowdfunded archaeology goes global!

Tracing finds with Emmi Koivisto and the University of Oulu A couple of weeks ago, DV was contacted by a team of archaeologists from the University of Oulu in Finland who had been inspired…

Triceratops poo and SEO: what’s the connection?

SEO is killing the internet, and it’s a great big pile of… Obviously we would rather use a bit stronger language, but it’s an excuse to illustrate our point with an image from one…

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The $65 billion picture

The $65 billion picture

Welcome to #MondayFundDay! We here at DigVentures caught on to the potential of crowdfunding almost immediately. As early adopters, we knew it was an absolute slam-dunk in terms of reaching new audiences, involving the…
What do reindeer have in common with equity crowdfunding?

What do reindeer have in common with equity crowdfunding?

The Reindeer of Rivington Street Okay, okay, I was going for the whole ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ thing with that headline, I admit it. But why pick ‘reindeer’ in relation to Seedrs? Reindeer aren’t…
What do YOU have in common with the Jamaican bobsled team?

What do YOU have in common with the Jamaican bobsled team?

#coolrunnings! Today I’m thinking about the Jamaican Bobsled team. I can well remember when they first left the perpetual summer of Jamaica to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics. The world sat back in…
Photo of the Week – Safety first, folks!

Photo of the Week – Safety first, folks!

Fergus, aka @SiteDog, relaxes on a high viz jacket at Flag Fen, August 2012. Photo of the Week As every good archaeologist knows, it’s important to stay safe on site – and our Fergus…
What did World War One really do for women?

What did World War One really do for women?

What did World War One really do for women? In this week’s #WWWednesday post, we take a look at a great BBC online resource that explores the role of women in WWI. And it’s…
Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers

Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers

Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers The glaciers of the Italian Alps are slowly melting to reveal horrors from the Great War, preserved for nearly a century A recent article…

DigVentures is OFFICIALLY one of the best cultural experiences in Europe!

Who made Lonely Planet’s 2014 List of the 52 Best Weekends Away? DigVentures, of course! That’s right folks, the good people at travel experts Lonely Planet have discovered our Dirty Weekends and have declared…

Welcome 2014!

Welcome 2014! This New Year’s message has grown from a conversation at DV HQ between Brendon, Lisa and Raksha one afternoon after our dig at Leiston Abbey in July. We always experience a period…

Why The Archaeology of Star Wars Might Actually Matter

The Archaeology of Star Wars?? If you find yourself scoffing at the very idea, this week’s guest columnist Louise Ord lays out why she thinks Star Wars deserves attention from archaeologists. As the next…

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