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Time Team’s Paul Blinkhorn: Where Is The Old Pot-Monkey Now?

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been tracking down my old Time Team colleagues to find out what they’ve been getting up to since the iconic show ended four years ago. But how…

Time Team: What Is Geofizz Whizzkid Jimmy Adcock Doing Now?

What happened to Time Team? That’s a question I get asked so often that I set off on a mission to find out. This time, I tracked down Jimmy Adcock and asked him ‘what…

Time Team’s Matt Williams: Where Is He Now?

Four years on from the last new episode of Time Team, I thought it was time to check in with my old cast and crew colleagues and see what they’ve been getting up to……

My Life In Objects: Nikolaos Maniatis, Archaeologist

Nikolaos is an archaeologist and conservator who has worked in labs, studying and preserving ancient artefacts around the world. Now, he’s using 3D printers with museofabber to restore and share some of the world’s…

My Life in Objects: Karl Harrison, Forensic Archaeologist

Karl Harrison is a forensic archaeologist. He’s trained to find, excavate and recover human remains under the most challenging and often harrowing of circumstances. In this DigVentures mashup of Desert Island Discs and A…

My Life in Objects: Sara Brown, Archaeological Conservator

When an artefact is dug up after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, they often need immediate treatment to stabilize their condition and stop them falling apart. Sara Brown is an archaeological conservator. She…
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My Life in Objects: Jane Sidell, Inspector of Ancient Monuments

The Inspector of Ancient Monuments for London is a role that dates back to the 1800s, when  Pitt-Rivers became the first of a long line of archaeologists to take on the responsibility of protecting…

Interview with a Space Archaeologist

Boldly going where no man, woman, child or dog has gone before, Dr Alice Gorman has been involved in the establishment of Space Archaeology as a sub-discipline. She’s also an out-of-this world authority on…

Pixels and Postholes: How I Got Into Archaeological Photography

Sometimes we just have to boggle at how people end up doing things that are so very… well, niche. Not this time. We spoke to seasoned Venturer Hugh Fiske about how, over the course…

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In Conversation with Martin Cuthbert, Community Archaeologist

Martin Cuthbert is the Community Archaeologist for the Eighth in the East. His aim? To enable local communities to engage with and learn about the Eighth US Air Force Squadron, who set up just…

Crowdsourcing Archaeology: An Interview with MicroPasts

If like us you’re interested (or even obsessed!) with all things innovative and archaeological, you’ll probably have noticed the new MicroPasts project making a huge impact over the past few months. DV have been…

Community Archaeology in Focus: The Eighth in the East

Love hearing about archaeology projects that are really pushing the boundaries to get people involved? So do we, which is why we just had to tell you about The Eighth in the East… During WW2,…

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