Leiston Abbey

Digging the monastic ruins of the Premonstratensians in Suffolk

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…

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 10

Day 10, and things are getting fabulous, with fresh digging news from Iron Age Spain…

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 9

Some of the archaeologists are reaching the bottom of their trenches, but others are taking to the sky… Today, archaeology goes aerial!

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 8

Day 8 is all about archaeology’s three Fs: flint, floors and… photoshoots. Yes, the Venturers are doubling up as fashion models – concrete evidence that archaeologists really can do anything

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 7

The Venturers investigate the three buildings they’ve just discovered, plus there’s one more mystery to solve… where’s Raksha?

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 6

 Missing medieval buildings are like buses. You dig for one for ages and then three come along at once!

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 5

*WARNING: This video contains explosions. And archaeology*

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 4

The team discovers a “cist burial”… but is it really real?!

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 3

Can the archaeologists find Leiston Abbey’s medieval infirmary in the wheatfield?

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Leiston – Season 3 – Day 2

Today we get the geophysics results and get driven mad as march hares by some bothersome burrowing bunnies.

Leiston – Season 3 – Day 1 – Introduction

Previously on DigVentures… Hold on to your trowels archaeology-lovers! We’re back with more archaeology than ever before!

Fresh from the lab: Pottery

To accidentally smash a piece of crockery in your kitchen is frustrating, but finding a piece that once held a medieval stew? That, as anyone who’s ever dug up a bit of old pot…

Black Shuck at Leiston Abbey

DigVentures and the BBC One Show: Devil Dog Black Shuck Returns!

DigVentures’ massive media moment began this past June with a throw-away comment in a parish newsletter, which grew into a tongue-in-cheek story in the local paper, and then matured into a fully-fledged monster tale…

Leiston Abbey Photogrammetry

Photogrammetry for Archaeologists

Is there anything stinkier than the stinky smell of wet stinking permatrace? Otherwise known as drafting film, the strong, durable and waterproof qualities of ‘permatrace’ make it an absolutely essential piece of an archaeologist’s…

The Legend of Black Shuck - DigVentures

The Legend of Black Shuck

You know you’re on to a winner when the Daily Mail runs an archaeology story with a question mark in the title. There’s always the hint of an archaeological discovery in there somewhere… but…

DigVentures, HLF and the ‘Digital Dig Team’ at Leiston Abbey

DigVentures wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for innovative ‘Digital Dig Team’ project at Leiston Abbey Today, DigVentures has received £74,700 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for their ‘Digital Dig Team’ project, which will…

Wish You Were Here!

A postcard from our summer dig. We came, we saw, we laughed, we cried, we dug great big holes and taught lots of people how to do archaeology…

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