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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…

Site Diary: Digging at the Edge of the World

What is it like to dig at the edge of the world? This update from Xosé Gago and the Costa dos Castros project tells it like it is. Here we are, digging at the…

Site Diary: Who’d Win a Fight Between a Hippo and a Wolf?

That’s the kind of question you ask when you’re a small kid with a big imagination. Except this time, I’m not asking for fun. Imagine a place where African game and temperate woodland species…

Site Diary: The Lesser-Spotted Archaeologist

It’s a heady mix of medieval intrigue and wartime cunning as DigVentures heads right into the heart of a world-famous bird sanctuary on a VERY special mission. Anyone who’s ever seen BBC Springwatch will…

Site Diary: Archaeology in the air!

If you get vertigo, you’d better look away now! DigVentures is taking to the skies over Leiston Abbey for an aerial photoshoot and the view from up here is AMAZING. Exhilarating. Thrilling. Captivating. Incredibly…

In Pictures: A Dirty Weekend in April

Let’s just start by saying it wouldn’t be a dirty weekend without a bit of mud… Or some unconventional positions… Or someone showing off the size of their tool (sorrynotsorry) Puns aside… the Dirty…

Raksha’s Site Diary: Back to the Trenches

Yup, that’s right; yours truly has finally been let loose in the field again. It’s been rather an eventful week at DV HQ, with our summer campaign, Saints and Secrets reaching over 100% in…

Out and About with… Matt Juddery

Indiana Jones. Need I say more? You hear that theme music and you know you’re in for an hour and half of whips, last-minute hat grabbing and Nazis. But my love of digging up…
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Raksha Dave is… NOT HAVING FUN!

*Warning* This blog contains graphic medical descriptions! But it’s eventually about archaeology, so stick with me people… Not being to open your mouth is not fun, being in pain is not fun, and not…

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Raksha’s Site Diary: a Dirty Weekend on the Thames foreshore

She might be on injured reserve, but our Raksha is still up for a Dirty Weekend. On doctor’s orders, I have been a desk-bound archaeologist for a number of weeks now, and therefore I’ve…

Out and About with… Hugh Fiske!

Hugh Fiske joined us for three weeks at Flag Fen. What was the result of his first-ever experience with archaeology: was it life-changing or soul-destroying? Read on! It’s Day 9 at Flag Fen… “We’re…
Raksha’s Site Diary: Time Team’s Lost Trenches

Raksha’s Site Diary: Time Team’s Lost Trenches

Our field archaeologist in residence is at it again! Where has she been? What’s she been diggin? And why does she have that look on her face? Read on… Times Team’s Lost Trenches And…
Raksha’s Site Diary: Roman London

Raksha’s Site Diary: Roman London

It’s been awhile, but our intrepid archaeologist Raksha is back with an update from the field. Where has she been, what has she found, why has she suddenly fallen in love with Samian bowls? …
Out and About with…Ben Swain!

Out and About with…Ben Swain!

One of our Venturers, Ben Swain, recently paid a visit to Flag Fen. Here he updates us on how things are looking, and how it felt to go back… Back to Flag Fen! “After…
Sacrilege is fun!

Sacrilege is fun!

As the English summer limps squishingly along, the DV team found one way to combat the dreariness: BOUNCING! On 7th July, as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Flag Fen hosted Turner Prize-winning…
Out and About with…Raksha and Lisa

Out and About with…Raksha and Lisa

It’s two for the price of one again this week, as Raksha gets to boss Lisa around the trenches! Last week I was out and about in Grantham, Lincolnshire.  Grantham is notorious for its…
Out and about with…Fergus

Out and about with…Fergus

Rearranging the people’s stuff to suit my nap-time needs!
Raksha’s Site Diary: Time team in Cardiff

Raksha’s Site Diary: Time team in Cardiff

This week: Into the Wild (or, spending time with the mighty Pryor!) We have already completed three episodes for series 20 of Time Team, and I feel like I’m always away from home in…

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