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Ben finds some decorated Samian Ware

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Elmswell Farm

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to explore the early days of Roman Britain at one of the first-known sites north of the Humber.

01 - 20 August 2026

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  • Roman
  • 2018 - 2026
East Yorkshire, England

Deep Time

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Deep Time

DigVentures is mapping habitats to support climate action, with Natural England.

New missions coming in 2026

Join now Explore project ›
  • Digital
  • 2021 - 2026
Online

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Earth Trust

Unearthing the story of an Iron Age village and Roman villa at the foot of Wittenham Clumps.

13 October - 01 November 2026

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  • Iron Age
  • Roman
  • 2018 - 2026
Oxfordshire, England

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Rossett Roman Villa

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth the first Roman villa ever to be discovered in North Wales.

29 August - 10 September 2026

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  • Roman
  • 2026
Wrexham, Wales

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Sacrewell Farm

Rediscovering a remarkable Roman villa in the heart of the Nene Valley.

22 September - 04 October 2026

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  • Roman
  • 2026
Cambridgeshire, England

Ongoing

Ampthill Castle

Uncovering the ruins of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s first home in Bedfordshire.

  • Tudor
  • 2026
Bedfordshire, England

Ongoing

Barnard Castle

Residents are helping DigVentures to find out what's buried in the castle's outer ward.

  • Contemporary
  • Medieval
  • 2024
County Durham, England

Ongoing

Beyond the Raid

Help support a new era of research to unlock Lindisfarne's untold stories from 10 years of archaeological discoveries - medieval life, the Viking raid, and beyond.

  • Early Medieval
  • 2026 - 2027
Durham | Online

Ongoing

Boyne Valley

DigVentures is exploring newly discovered Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Boyne Valley, home to some of Ireland's most iconic ancient landmarks.

  • Neolithic
  • 2023 - 2026
County Meath, Ireland

A view over the Quantocks

Ongoing

Cothelstone Farm

Investigating a prehistoric settlement in the Quantock Hills, with Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme.

  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
  • 2024
Somerset, England

Ongoing

Henry VIII on Tour

DigVentures is partnering with Historic Royal Palaces to get the public involved in exploring six historic sites connected to Henry VIII’s royal progresses.

  • Tudor
  • 2023 - 2024

Ongoing

Lesnes Abbey

Searching for surviving traces of Lesnes Abbey on the 500th anniversary of its dissolution.

  • Tudor
  • 2026
Greater London, England

Ongoing

Lindisfarne

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth the iconic early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings.

  • Early Medieval
  • 2016 - 2026
Northumberland, England

Ongoing

Lytham Hall

From a medieval monastery to lost gardens, an ice house, and other forgotten structures, DigVentures is exploring the hidden history of a Georgian estate in Lancashire.

  • Medieval
  • Post Medieval
  • 2026
Lancashire, England

Excavating at Soulton Hall

Ongoing

Soulton

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth a 'missing' medieval castle in Shropshire.

  • Medieval
  • 2021 - 2023
Shropshire, England

Ongoing

St Hilda's Church: Heart of the Headland

Carrying the legacy of St Hilda into the future of Hartlepool.

  • Contemporary
  • Early Medieval
  • Early Modern
  • Industrial
  • Medieval
  • Post Medieval
  • Victorian
County Durham, England

Sudeley Castle

Ongoing

Sudeley Castle

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to search for the lost medieval village of Sudeley.

  • Tudor
  • 2018 - 2025
Gloucestershire, England

Complete

Ampleforth Big Dig with Ryevitalise

Unearthing Ampleforth’s history, one garden at a time.

  • Medieval
  • 2023
North Yorkshire, England

Complete

Ancient Connections

Explore the early medieval links between Wales and Ireland using geophysics.

  • Medieval
  • 2021 - 2022
Pembrokeshire, Wales and Wexford, Ireland

Complete

Barrowed Time

DigVentures investigated Bronze Age life in North West England, including two very rare treasures and a burial mound full of urns.

  • Bronze Age
  • 2016 - 2017
Lancashire, England

Ben Scar Cave - archaeology project

Complete

Ben Scar Cave

From Ice Age predators, to trinkets left by Romano-British cave cults, our crowdfunders helped us expose the wonders hidden deep inside Yorkshire's caves.

  • Palaeolithic
  • 2016
North Yorkshire, England

Complete

Brightwater

Investigating a strange Roman town, and the home of a medieval Prince-Bishop, in partnership with Discover Brightwater.

  • Medieval
  • Roman
  • 2019 - 2021
County Durham, England

Caerfai promontory fort photographed from the air

Complete

Caerfai

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to rescue the ruins of an ancient coastal fort that's under threat from climate change in Wales.

  • Iron Age
  • 2022 - 2023
Pembrokeshire, Wales

Complete

Chance Lighthouse Map

Over 2,500 lighthouses around the world were 'Made in Smethwick'. Join our project to map them all.

  • Industrial
  • Digital
  • 2022
West Midlands, England

Complete

Coldingham Priory

When King Oswald founded the famous Anglo-Saxon monastery on Lindisfarne, his sister Princess Aebbe founded another just over the Scottish border. We headed to Scotland to find it.

  • Early Medieval
  • 2018
Scottish Borders, Scotland

Complete

Community Engagement in Archaeology: CIfA Toolkit Project

A project to help our sector do better in recognising, commissioning, designing, delivering and evaluating meaningful public engaement with archaeology.

  • Digital
  • 2022

Costa dos Castros - archaeological project

Complete

Costa dos Castros

Our crowdfunders collaborated with a local community on Spain's Atlantic coast to protect its incredible Iron Age hillforts and unique Bronze Age rock art.

  • Iron Age
  • 2015 - 2016
Galicia, Spain

Complete

Digging Darrow

Darrow is home to the ruins of America's biggest Shaker settlement. We investigated the rise and fall of their remarkable attempt to build a new utopia.

  • Industrial
  • 2017 - 2018
New York State, USA

Complete

Digital Archives in Archaeology

Want clear guidance on digital archives for everyone in archaeology? We're working on it.

  • Digital
  • 2018 - 2022
Global

Complete

Digital Dig Team

Straight from the trenches and onto our website: we're developing a new, improved way of sharing our research in real time.

  • Digital
  • 2021 - 2022
Global

Complete

DigNation '18

DigVentures and Tony Robinson launched the world's first archaeology festival - in honour of Mick Aston!

  • 2018
Northumberland, England

Complete

DigNation Festival

DigNation is a huge, free, virtual festival celebrating amazing archaeology projects around the world.

  • Digital
  • 2020
Online

Complete

Etched in Stone

People around the country used photogrammetry to co-create a free, 3D database of Anglo-Saxon namestones.

  • Early Medieval
  • Digital
  • 2018
Hartlepool, England

Fellfoot Forward signpost

Complete

Fellfoot Forward

Uncover the past and discover a new side to the North Pennines AONB.

  • 2022
North Pennines, England

Flag Fen Lives - archaeology project

Complete

Flag Fen Lives

In 2012, we ran the world's first-ever crowdfunded dig at one of the UK's most important Bronze Age sites. See what we discovered.

  • Bronze Age
  • 2012
Cambridgeshire, England

Complete

Glengarnock Castle

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth a storm-ruined medieval castle in Scotland.

  • Medieval
  • 2022
North Ayrshire, Scotland

Complete

Jane Pit

Workington came together to help our mission to help preserve an icon of Cumbria's industrial heritage - Jane Pit.

  • Industrial
  • Victorian
  • 2018 & 2023
Cumbria, England

Leiston Abbey - 2015 archeological project

Complete

Leiston Abbey

Hundreds of crowdfunders helped us investigate the story of (two!) medieval abbeys in coastal Suffolk. Find out what we discovered.

  • Medieval
  • 2013 - 2016
Suffolk, England

Complete

Living Levels

Building an online map of the incredible archaeology on the Gwent Levels.

  • 2019 - 2021
Monmouthshire, Wales

Mad in Smethwick

Complete

Made in Smethwick

DigVentures and Chance Heritage Trust are reconnecting local residents with Smethwick's industrial heritage.

  • Industrial
  • 2022
West Midlands, England

Complete

Mammoth Graveyard

DigVentures is the archaeological team behind the exciting new BBC One documentary.

  • Palaeolithic
  • 2021
Wiltshire, England

Complete

Miracles to Medicine

An exploration of the social and cultural history of medicine and health in medieval Northumbria.

  • Medieval
  • Digital
  • 2018 - 2019
Northumberland, England

Complete

Moorsholm

DigVentures is investigating a prehistoric village that has recently been discovered on the North York Moors.

  • Bronze Age
  • Neolithic
  • 2022 - 2023
North Yorkshire, England

Two people stand on a scenic hill looking out to sea

Complete

Natural England Citizen Science Local Pilots

Helping Natural England shape a national approach to citizen science for nature recovery.

  • Digital
  • 2024 - 2025

Complete

Oldbury Camp

There's something strange about this hillfort; it's not on a hill. See what we discovered when we tried to find out when it was built, and what it was for.

  • Iron Age
  • 2017
Gloucestershire, England

Complete

Options for Sustainable Archaeological Archives

Learn more about the latest in a series of research projects investigating some of the existing issues that are associated with archaeological archives.

  • 2021 - 2024
Global

Complete

PalaeoPixels

DigVentures is inspiring local young people to explore the discoveries behind Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard, and what they mean for our understanding of climate change today.

  • Palaeolithic
  • Digital
  • 2021 - 2022
Wiltshire, England

Complete

Pontefract Castle

Unearthing the medieval gatehouse and drawbridge pit at one of England's biggest castles, in partnership with Historic England and Wakefield Council.

  • Early Modern
  • Medieval
  • Victorian
  • 2020
West Yorkshire, England

Spodden Valley

Complete

Spodden Valley

We're heading out to the Lancashire hills to find out more about the hunter-gatherers who once saw Spodden Valley as their home.

  • Bronze Age
  • Mesolithic
  • 2018
Lancashire, England

Complete

St Mary's

Revitalising Richard III's beloved church in Barnard Castle.

  • Industrial
  • Medieval
  • Post Medieval
  • 2021
County Durham, England

Complete

St Neot

DigVentures headed to Cornwall to unearth a recently-discovered Bronze Age village on Bodmin Moor - and what we found was astounding!

  • Bronze Age
  • 2018
Cornwall, England

Complete

Unloved Heritage?

Connecting young people in Wales with their community, history and heritage.

  • Industrial
  • 2021
Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

Complete

Weoley Good Fun

DigVentures is bringing history-inspired fun for everyone to Weoley Castle, in partnership with Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society.

  • Contemporary
  • 2023 - 2024
West Midlands, England

Ben finds some decorated Samian Ware

Live

Elmswell Farm

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to explore the early days of Roman Britain at one of the first-known sites north of the Humber.

01 - 20 August 2026

Deep Time

Join Now

Deep Time

DigVentures is mapping habitats to support climate action, with Natural England.

New missions coming in 2026

Join Now

Earth Trust

Unearthing the story of an Iron Age village and Roman villa at the foot of Wittenham Clumps.

13 October - 01 November 2026

Join Now

Rossett Roman Villa

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth the first Roman villa ever to be discovered in North Wales.

29 August - 10 September 2026

Join Now

Sacrewell Farm

Rediscovering a remarkable Roman villa in the heart of the Nene Valley.

22 September - 04 October 2026

Ongoing

Ampthill Castle

Uncovering the ruins of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s first home in Bedfordshire.

Ongoing

Barnard Castle

Residents are helping DigVentures to find out what's buried in the castle's outer ward.

Ongoing

Beyond the Raid

Help support a new era of research to unlock Lindisfarne's untold stories from 10 years of archaeological discoveries - medieval life, the Viking raid, and beyond.

Ongoing

Boyne Valley

DigVentures is exploring newly discovered Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in the Boyne Valley, home to some of Ireland's most iconic ancient landmarks.

A view over the Quantocks

Ongoing

Cothelstone Farm

Investigating a prehistoric settlement in the Quantock Hills, with Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme.

Ongoing

Henry VIII on Tour

DigVentures is partnering with Historic Royal Palaces to get the public involved in exploring six historic sites connected to Henry VIII’s royal progresses.

Ongoing

Lesnes Abbey

Searching for surviving traces of Lesnes Abbey on the 500th anniversary of its dissolution.

Ongoing

Lindisfarne

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth the iconic early Medieval monastery raided by Vikings.

Ongoing

Lytham Hall

From a medieval monastery to lost gardens, an ice house, and other forgotten structures, DigVentures is exploring the hidden history of a Georgian estate in Lancashire.

Excavating at Soulton Hall

Ongoing

Soulton

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth a 'missing' medieval castle in Shropshire.

Ongoing

St Hilda's Church: Heart of the Headland

Carrying the legacy of St Hilda into the future of Hartlepool.

Sudeley Castle

Ongoing

Sudeley Castle

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to search for the lost medieval village of Sudeley.

Complete

Ampleforth Big Dig with Ryevitalise

Unearthing Ampleforth’s history, one garden at a time.

Complete

Ancient Connections

Explore the early medieval links between Wales and Ireland using geophysics.

Complete

Barrowed Time

DigVentures investigated Bronze Age life in North West England, including two very rare treasures and a burial mound full of urns.

Ben Scar Cave - archaeology project

Complete

Ben Scar Cave

From Ice Age predators, to trinkets left by Romano-British cave cults, our crowdfunders helped us expose the wonders hidden deep inside Yorkshire's caves.

Complete

Brightwater

Investigating a strange Roman town, and the home of a medieval Prince-Bishop, in partnership with Discover Brightwater.

Caerfai promontory fort photographed from the air

Complete

Caerfai

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to rescue the ruins of an ancient coastal fort that's under threat from climate change in Wales.

Complete

Chance Lighthouse Map

Over 2,500 lighthouses around the world were 'Made in Smethwick'. Join our project to map them all.

Complete

Coldingham Priory

When King Oswald founded the famous Anglo-Saxon monastery on Lindisfarne, his sister Princess Aebbe founded another just over the Scottish border. We headed to Scotland to find it.

Complete

Community Engagement in Archaeology: CIfA Toolkit Project

A project to help our sector do better in recognising, commissioning, designing, delivering and evaluating meaningful public engaement with archaeology.

Costa dos Castros - archaeological project

Complete

Costa dos Castros

Our crowdfunders collaborated with a local community on Spain's Atlantic coast to protect its incredible Iron Age hillforts and unique Bronze Age rock art.

Complete

Digging Darrow

Darrow is home to the ruins of America's biggest Shaker settlement. We investigated the rise and fall of their remarkable attempt to build a new utopia.

Complete

Digital Archives in Archaeology

Want clear guidance on digital archives for everyone in archaeology? We're working on it.

Complete

Digital Dig Team

Straight from the trenches and onto our website: we're developing a new, improved way of sharing our research in real time.

Complete

DigNation '18

DigVentures and Tony Robinson launched the world's first archaeology festival - in honour of Mick Aston!

Complete

DigNation Festival

DigNation is a huge, free, virtual festival celebrating amazing archaeology projects around the world.

Complete

Etched in Stone

People around the country used photogrammetry to co-create a free, 3D database of Anglo-Saxon namestones.

Fellfoot Forward signpost

Complete

Fellfoot Forward

Uncover the past and discover a new side to the North Pennines AONB.

Flag Fen Lives - archaeology project

Complete

Flag Fen Lives

In 2012, we ran the world's first-ever crowdfunded dig at one of the UK's most important Bronze Age sites. See what we discovered.

Complete

Glengarnock Castle

DigVentures is crowdfunding a dig to unearth a storm-ruined medieval castle in Scotland.

Complete

Jane Pit

Workington came together to help our mission to help preserve an icon of Cumbria's industrial heritage - Jane Pit.

Leiston Abbey - 2015 archeological project

Complete

Leiston Abbey

Hundreds of crowdfunders helped us investigate the story of (two!) medieval abbeys in coastal Suffolk. Find out what we discovered.

Complete

Living Levels

Building an online map of the incredible archaeology on the Gwent Levels.

Mad in Smethwick

Complete

Made in Smethwick

DigVentures and Chance Heritage Trust are reconnecting local residents with Smethwick's industrial heritage.

Complete

Mammoth Graveyard

DigVentures is the archaeological team behind the exciting new BBC One documentary.

Complete

Miracles to Medicine

An exploration of the social and cultural history of medicine and health in medieval Northumbria.

Complete

Moorsholm

DigVentures is investigating a prehistoric village that has recently been discovered on the North York Moors.

Two people stand on a scenic hill looking out to sea

Complete

Natural England Citizen Science Local Pilots

Helping Natural England shape a national approach to citizen science for nature recovery.

Complete

Oldbury Camp

There's something strange about this hillfort; it's not on a hill. See what we discovered when we tried to find out when it was built, and what it was for.

Complete

Options for Sustainable Archaeological Archives

Learn more about the latest in a series of research projects investigating some of the existing issues that are associated with archaeological archives.

Complete

PalaeoPixels

DigVentures is inspiring local young people to explore the discoveries behind Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard, and what they mean for our understanding of climate change today.

Complete

Pontefract Castle

Unearthing the medieval gatehouse and drawbridge pit at one of England's biggest castles, in partnership with Historic England and Wakefield Council.

Spodden Valley

Complete

Spodden Valley

We're heading out to the Lancashire hills to find out more about the hunter-gatherers who once saw Spodden Valley as their home.

Complete

St Mary's

Revitalising Richard III's beloved church in Barnard Castle.

Complete

St Neot

DigVentures headed to Cornwall to unearth a recently-discovered Bronze Age village on Bodmin Moor - and what we found was astounding!

Complete

Unloved Heritage?

Connecting young people in Wales with their community, history and heritage.

Complete

Weoley Good Fun

DigVentures is bringing history-inspired fun for everyone to Weoley Castle, in partnership with Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society.

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