DV Funnies!

Yeah, so The Dave and LWW have been out and about again…hilarity ensues. Watch on!   Raksha and LWW provide alternative on-site uses for everyday implements. [Watch video below]

From a field in the middle of nowhere…

DV (and Fergus the Site Dog!) in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Nine days to go! And here’s a lovely new article in the Peterborough ET…read on! Fergus’s starring role begins…

Radio Raksha

If this isn’t the most enthusiastic radio presenter the wrong side of breakfast, we’ll eat our hard hats!

Booking update: Availability

With just two weeks to go until the end of our funding window, we’ve sold out several of the days and weekends for the Flag Fen Lives Field School. But never fear! You can…

Listen to the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire interview with Sarah Stannage of Vivacity and DigVentures MD Lisa Westcott-Wilkins

Click play below to listen to the interview with Lisa on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire recorded on 24 April 2012.

Alan Bennett Class

Quote of the week… Every now and then we come across something that stops us in our tracks. This week we watched The History Boys – Alan Bennett’s play about a group of ‘A’…

Francis hits the airwaves

On Tuesday 10th April, 10pm, Francis Pryor will feature on Radio 3’s Nightwaves programme, for an in-depth discussion about the Flag Fen landscape and life in the Bronze Age.

Happy Easter!

It’s been another busy week here at Flag Fen towers – we’re still fundraising like crazy, and continuing to pick up some well appreciated publicity for our dig this summer.

Pay it forward winner!

Remember our launch night promise to give away a dig for a day? Matt Law, the original winner kindly asked that we give his prize to someone who, unlike him, was not actively involved…

Week 3 in the DV House

The trolls have headed home (or at least headed back under the bridge!), we’re steadily moving towards our target (nearly 40% funded!) and another week brings another round of positive write-ups from our friends…

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. 

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!

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…

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: 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…

Still alive at Current Archaeology Live

….barely! Epic night. Here’s a piccie of Project Director Brendon Wilkins at our first-ever public appearance! Ain’t he handsome?