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We study the past, or so the story goes, so that mistakes will never be repeated. However, according to recent studies there’s a recurring lesson we keep ignoring, one that could spell very real…
Friday Five-times-two-plus-two Archaeological Anomalies!

Friday Five-times-two-plus-two Archaeological Anomalies!

So, Aisling has the week off from the Friday Five, and we realised that we couldn’t leave our readers without suitable interesting list of intrepid and interesting information to celebrate the most wonderful day…

Last Orders at the Bar

Welcome to #WWWednesday! Conflict archaeologists and DV guest columnist Sarah Ashbridge takes a closer look at the role of alcohol in the trenches of WWI. It’s a rum lot! It is safe to say…

Pay it Forward – Nominations open!

In 2012, DigVentures started the Pay it Forward scholarship programme based on a challenge from one of our Venturers, Matt Law. We were incredibly pleased to be able to bring five people to site…
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Congratulations Aisling!

On top of another fantastic week for the Saints & Secrets campaign (we’re over 50% funded, woo hoo!) comes the utterly brilliant news that our second intern is graduating into her dream job. That’s…

Venturer of the Week: Val Mayhew!

  Venturer of the Week: Val Mayhew Val is one of our fab Day Digger Venturers. Why is she joining us? Like so many people we’ve met, Val tells us that archaeology is something…

We need YOU: Community Archaeologist trainee sought for Digital Dig Team!

Community Archaeologist (Trainee), Digital Dig Team Job Type:  Full time Salary: £17094 p.a., pro-rata for six months (with potential to extend) Closing date for applications: 3:00pm, 5th May 2014 Interviews: 13th May in London…

Happy World Heritage Day! Win a Dig Day with DV at Leiston Abbey

To celebrate World Heritage Day, we’re giving away a day digging with our fab DV team at Leiston Abbey! You’ll get to meet Brendon, Lisa, Raksha and of course….Fergus the Site Dog! To enter…

Friday Five…Implausible Idioms!

  The English language is so full of awkward exceptions, sneaky silent letters and incomprehensible idioms, we’re baffled that anyone actually manages to master it! But ever thought about what you’re really saying? When…

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We need a Community Manager for Digital Dig Team Join the DigVentures team and help us deliver our HLF -funded Digital Dig Team project! Job Type:  Full time, fixed term 12 month contract Salary:…

Unwrapping a mummy – digitally!

Hands-off history! With technology creating ever expanding opportunities for museums, gone are the days of dragging the kids round stuffy aisles looking at row after row of artefacts behind glass cabinets. Museums now have…

Maggie the Indestructible!

Torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the Luftwaffe, bombarded in Moscow, pulled out of a crashed chopper, and stranded on an Arctic island: photographer Margaret Bourke-White was as Maggie the Indestructible! Today’s #WWWednesday post…

DigVentures, HLF and the ‘Digital Dig Team’ at Leiston Abbey

DigVentures wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for innovative ‘Digital Dig Team’ project at Leiston Abbey Today, DigVentures has received £74,700 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for their ‘Digital Dig Team’ project, which will…
Best Viking Artefacts British Museum

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’…
Plug Street – the Ballad of the Unknown Soldier

Plug Street – the Ballad of the Unknown Soldier

Following last week’s #WWWednesday feature describing the latest scientific methods for identifying fallen WW1 soldiers, forensic archaeologist Sarah Ashbridge explains how these new techniques have been used at Plug Street in Flanders. Our story…

DigVentures in The Guardian

At CultureLabel’s REMIX LONDON summit in 2012, Steve Crossan, the Director of the Google Cultural Institute, opened the conference by saying that for him, the most exciting thing about culture were the stories of…

D is for… Dirty Weekends

With the aid of blogger and archaeologist HollyMae Steane Price, we are working our way through the alphabet, looking at the A-Z of archaeology, one letter at a time. Today’s letter is D… Do…

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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