Site Diary: What We Found Inside The Morecambe Urn

The Morecambe urn is a rare discovery, full to the brim with an unusual quantity of extraordinarily well-preserved human bone. Here’s what we now know about who they belonged to. The discovery of a…

Site Diary: Did Bronze Age Brits Bury Their Dead In Food Vessels?

The people of the Bronze Age may be famous for constructing huge monuments and burying spectacular hordes, but in northern Britain they also buried their dead along with ceramic containers known to archaeologists as…

Site Diary: What Archaeologists Do When They’re Not Digging

Think of an archaeologist at work and you probably picture someone outdoors, in a trench, with a trowel. If that’s the case, then what on earth has everyone at DigVentures been up to since…

Site Diary: Lindisfarne Namestone Reveals New Anglo-Saxon Name

In the latest episode of Digging For Britain, we talked to Alice Roberts about our discoveries at Lindisfarne, including a rare early medieval Anglo-Saxon namestone. But who did it belong to? And why was…

In Pictures: An Archaeological Biopsy!

If geophysics is like an x-ray, then here’s why digging test pits is the archaeological equivalent of a biopsy. Out in the West Country, right on the banks of the River Severn, lies Oldbury…

Site Diary: The Archaeology Ambassadors Visit Iron Age Spain

Think of Spain and you’ll probably be thinking of rugged mountains, Moorish palaces, and coastlines filled with ex-pats. But head north, and you’ll find something quite different, something quite unique, and that’s a place…

Site Diary: Archaeology Ambassadors Visit An Iron Age ‘Factory’ On The Atlantic Coast of Spain

Plus-sized architecture, industry and trade with the Mediterranean… if you were to believe the Romans, you’d think the arrival of all this on Europe’s Atlantic coast was thanks to them. But meet the archaeologists…

Site Diary: We Found A Medieval Floor!

Site Diary: The Farmer’s Furrows

Site Diary: Window To The Past

Site Diary: Welcome To Our Trenches!

Site Diary: Brendon’s Block

Site Diary: The New Season Begins!

In Pictures: Archaeologists Visit Santa Trega

We went to visit archaeologists excavating a 2,500 year old hillfort in northwest Spain. What we saw completely blew us away. Unknown to many, northwest Spain is absolutely chock full of Iron Age archaeology….

Site Diary: What Kind Of Burial Mound Have We Actually Found?

What type of barrow is Morecambe’s Bronze Age burial mound? There are as many possibilities as there are flavours of ice cream for sale on Morecambe’s famous beachfront promenade, but after two weeks of…

We’re Creating an Archaeology Themed Graphic Novel! Meet the Woman Behind the Art…

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