Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand
www.channel4.com
The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm
Enjoy 😊
Over on Instagram you can see what happened on the #Durotriges25 dig when #Stratmates Meg and Jon tried out two new personal assistants
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www.instagram.com/reel/DQUgph2...
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www.instagram.com/reel/DQUgph2...
October 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Over on Instagram you can see what happened on the #Durotriges25 dig when #Stratmates Meg and Jon tried out two new personal assistants
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www.instagram.com/reel/DQUgph2...
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www.instagram.com/reel/DQUgph2...
We can at last reveal that we had some very special visitors on the #Durotriges25 dig this summer
Episode 1 of *Hidden Wonders* with Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social, featuring an hour of Iron Age chalky goodness, is coming soon on the More4 channel
Can't wait to show you what we found
Episode 1 of *Hidden Wonders* with Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social, featuring an hour of Iron Age chalky goodness, is coming soon on the More4 channel
Can't wait to show you what we found
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We can at last reveal that we had some very special visitors on the #Durotriges25 dig this summer
Episode 1 of *Hidden Wonders* with Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social, featuring an hour of Iron Age chalky goodness, is coming soon on the More4 channel
Can't wait to show you what we found
Episode 1 of *Hidden Wonders* with Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social, featuring an hour of Iron Age chalky goodness, is coming soon on the More4 channel
Can't wait to show you what we found
During the very last bit of context recording at #Durotriges25 we noticed a possible feature
We cleaned the feature
Asha and Megan dug the feature
It contained 4 Iron Age sheep burials
We have now recorded these
We will now stop looking for features and backfill !
Happy ##FindsFriday
We cleaned the feature
Asha and Megan dug the feature
It contained 4 Iron Age sheep burials
We have now recorded these
We will now stop looking for features and backfill !
Happy ##FindsFriday
July 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
During the very last bit of context recording at #Durotriges25 we noticed a possible feature
We cleaned the feature
Asha and Megan dug the feature
It contained 4 Iron Age sheep burials
We have now recorded these
We will now stop looking for features and backfill !
Happy ##FindsFriday
We cleaned the feature
Asha and Megan dug the feature
It contained 4 Iron Age sheep burials
We have now recorded these
We will now stop looking for features and backfill !
Happy ##FindsFriday
In the very (very) final moments of recording prior to backfill at #Durotriges25, Jon is:
a) trying to plan a particularly tricky seeies of Iron Age pits using blue spray paint
b) creating an immersive piece of dystopian experimental art entitled *Despair*
#Archaeology #Dorset
a) trying to plan a particularly tricky seeies of Iron Age pits using blue spray paint
b) creating an immersive piece of dystopian experimental art entitled *Despair*
#Archaeology #Dorset
July 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
In the very (very) final moments of recording prior to backfill at #Durotriges25, Jon is:
a) trying to plan a particularly tricky seeies of Iron Age pits using blue spray paint
b) creating an immersive piece of dystopian experimental art entitled *Despair*
#Archaeology #Dorset
a) trying to plan a particularly tricky seeies of Iron Age pits using blue spray paint
b) creating an immersive piece of dystopian experimental art entitled *Despair*
#Archaeology #Dorset
Aaaaaand we're done!!!
Thank you for following the #Durotriges25 excavation over the past 8 weeks and special thanks for those who interacted with, joined or visited us out in the field
It's been a blast
See you next year for #Durotriges26 !!
Thank you for following the #Durotriges25 excavation over the past 8 weeks and special thanks for those who interacted with, joined or visited us out in the field
It's been a blast
See you next year for #Durotriges26 !!
July 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Aaaaaand we're done!!!
Thank you for following the #Durotriges25 excavation over the past 8 weeks and special thanks for those who interacted with, joined or visited us out in the field
It's been a blast
See you next year for #Durotriges26 !!
Thank you for following the #Durotriges25 excavation over the past 8 weeks and special thanks for those who interacted with, joined or visited us out in the field
It's been a blast
See you next year for #Durotriges26 !!
In the last feature to be dug at #durotriges25, Jade has found the larger part of a Late Iron Age black burnished ware pedestal-base cup
A very nice find to end the dig 😍
#FindsFriday
A very nice find to end the dig 😍
#FindsFriday
July 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the last feature to be dug at #durotriges25, Jade has found the larger part of a Late Iron Age black burnished ware pedestal-base cup
A very nice find to end the dig 😍
#FindsFriday
A very nice find to end the dig 😍
#FindsFriday
It's day 5 of packdown at #Durotriges25 and, despite the extreme heat, the team are ensuring all records, plans and sections of Iron Age #archaeology are complete
July 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It's day 5 of packdown at #Durotriges25 and, despite the extreme heat, the team are ensuring all records, plans and sections of Iron Age #archaeology are complete
Day 4 of packdown at #Durotriges25 and its a blur of context recording, planning, section drawing and photography
The Durotrigian drone is giving us good aerial views of specific areas of the trench
Such as this roundhouse, terraced platform, enclosure ditch, activity area combo 🤩
The Durotrigian drone is giving us good aerial views of specific areas of the trench
Such as this roundhouse, terraced platform, enclosure ditch, activity area combo 🤩
July 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Day 4 of packdown at #Durotriges25 and its a blur of context recording, planning, section drawing and photography
The Durotrigian drone is giving us good aerial views of specific areas of the trench
Such as this roundhouse, terraced platform, enclosure ditch, activity area combo 🤩
The Durotrigian drone is giving us good aerial views of specific areas of the trench
Such as this roundhouse, terraced platform, enclosure ditch, activity area combo 🤩
Matt has completed the excavation of a sub #Roman terraced house platform on the hottest day of the year at #Durotriges25
He is happy 😊 👍
He is happy 😊 👍
July 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Matt has completed the excavation of a sub #Roman terraced house platform on the hottest day of the year at #Durotriges25
He is happy 😊 👍
He is happy 😊 👍
Tracey is finding, excavating and recording a whole series of prehistoric postholes at #Durotriges25
Its packdown week and we've found another Iron Age building
Of course we have 🤣
Its packdown week and we've found another Iron Age building
Of course we have 🤣
July 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Tracey is finding, excavating and recording a whole series of prehistoric postholes at #Durotriges25
Its packdown week and we've found another Iron Age building
Of course we have 🤣
Its packdown week and we've found another Iron Age building
Of course we have 🤣
July 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Want to take a quick tour of the newly discovered Iron Age roundhouse at #Durotriges25?
Of course you do 😀
Sound on 👍
#Archaeology #Archeology #Dorset
Of course you do 😀
Sound on 👍
#Archaeology #Archeology #Dorset
July 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Want to take a quick tour of the newly discovered Iron Age roundhouse at #Durotriges25?
Of course you do 😀
Sound on 👍
#Archaeology #Archeology #Dorset
Of course you do 😀
Sound on 👍
#Archaeology #Archeology #Dorset
Of course, what you really want to find, 5 days after an archaeological dig has come to am end, is an Iron Age roundhouse
10m across with a door facing SE, it is gorgeous
Shame we didn’t see it earlier in the excavation 🤣
#Durotriges25 #Archaeology
10m across with a door facing SE, it is gorgeous
Shame we didn’t see it earlier in the excavation 🤣
#Durotriges25 #Archaeology
July 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Of course, what you really want to find, 5 days after an archaeological dig has come to am end, is an Iron Age roundhouse
10m across with a door facing SE, it is gorgeous
Shame we didn’t see it earlier in the excavation 🤣
#Durotriges25 #Archaeology
10m across with a door facing SE, it is gorgeous
Shame we didn’t see it earlier in the excavation 🤣
#Durotriges25 #Archaeology
It's #HillfortsWednesday huzzah!
One of our favourite Iron Age hillforts is just up the road from #Durotriges25
The small but perfectly 2ha bivallate enclosure of Rawlsbury Camp which sits on a chalk spur at the end of Bulbarrow Hill #Dorset 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
One of our favourite Iron Age hillforts is just up the road from #Durotriges25
The small but perfectly 2ha bivallate enclosure of Rawlsbury Camp which sits on a chalk spur at the end of Bulbarrow Hill #Dorset 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
July 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It's #HillfortsWednesday huzzah!
One of our favourite Iron Age hillforts is just up the road from #Durotriges25
The small but perfectly 2ha bivallate enclosure of Rawlsbury Camp which sits on a chalk spur at the end of Bulbarrow Hill #Dorset 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
One of our favourite Iron Age hillforts is just up the road from #Durotriges25
The small but perfectly 2ha bivallate enclosure of Rawlsbury Camp which sits on a chalk spur at the end of Bulbarrow Hill #Dorset 😍
Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016
Pippin has finished excavating an Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25 (with Mark's help)
She is happy 🐕
She is happy 🐕
July 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Pippin has finished excavating an Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25 (with Mark's help)
She is happy 🐕
She is happy 🐕
Ruby and Amy have found this sherd of #Roman Samian Ware (terra sigillata) wine cup in a feature at #Durotriges25
The naked *dad bod* torso suggests it could be a depiction of Bacchus (or possibly Hercules?)
The naked *dad bod* torso suggests it could be a depiction of Bacchus (or possibly Hercules?)
July 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ruby and Amy have found this sherd of #Roman Samian Ware (terra sigillata) wine cup in a feature at #Durotriges25
The naked *dad bod* torso suggests it could be a depiction of Bacchus (or possibly Hercules?)
The naked *dad bod* torso suggests it could be a depiction of Bacchus (or possibly Hercules?)
Asha has spotted a Late Neolithic flint projectile point in the lower fill of the Iron Age pit she's working on with Alison at #Durotriges25
It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)
It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)
July 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Asha has spotted a Late Neolithic flint projectile point in the lower fill of the Iron Age pit she's working on with Alison at #Durotriges25
It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)
It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)
Day 2 of packdown week at #Durotriges25
Dani has finished the half section of a large Iron Age pit whilst behind, Barnaby and Alison plough on with theirs
Dani has finished the half section of a large Iron Age pit whilst behind, Barnaby and Alison plough on with theirs
July 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Day 2 of packdown week at #Durotriges25
Dani has finished the half section of a large Iron Age pit whilst behind, Barnaby and Alison plough on with theirs
Dani has finished the half section of a large Iron Age pit whilst behind, Barnaby and Alison plough on with theirs
July 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mark has found a large piece of worked shale from close to the bottom of an Iron Age pit at #Durotriges25
He is happy
He is happy
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Mark has found a large piece of worked shale from close to the bottom of an Iron Age pit at #Durotriges25
He is happy
He is happy
Day 1 of #Durotriges25 packdown
Very quiet on site today but lots of Iron Age archaeology to record!!
Very quiet on site today but lots of Iron Age archaeology to record!!
July 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Day 1 of #Durotriges25 packdown
Very quiet on site today but lots of Iron Age archaeology to record!!
Very quiet on site today but lots of Iron Age archaeology to record!!
The #Durotriges25 team at the end of the last day's briefing
Thanks to them and everyone else who participated in the Great Durotrigian Dig
We love you guys! 👋
Thanks to them and everyone else who participated in the Great Durotrigian Dig
We love you guys! 👋
July 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The #Durotriges25 team at the end of the last day's briefing
Thanks to them and everyone else who participated in the Great Durotrigian Dig
We love you guys! 👋
Thanks to them and everyone else who participated in the Great Durotrigian Dig
We love you guys! 👋
An island of chalk in a sea of green
The Iron Age ditches and pits of #Durotriges25 from the Durotrigian drone as the last full day of the dig dawns
The Iron Age ditches and pits of #Durotriges25 from the Durotrigian drone as the last full day of the dig dawns
July 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
An island of chalk in a sea of green
The Iron Age ditches and pits of #Durotriges25 from the Durotrigian drone as the last full day of the dig dawns
The Iron Age ditches and pits of #Durotriges25 from the Durotrigian drone as the last full day of the dig dawns
In a distant part of #Durotriges25 there is a field that is forever environmental processing
Evan, Yasmine and Emily are hard at work, bravely sorting flotation samples from multiple Iron Age pits 👏
Evan, Yasmine and Emily are hard at work, bravely sorting flotation samples from multiple Iron Age pits 👏
July 5, 2025 at 5:56 AM
In a distant part of #Durotriges25 there is a field that is forever environmental processing
Evan, Yasmine and Emily are hard at work, bravely sorting flotation samples from multiple Iron Age pits 👏
Evan, Yasmine and Emily are hard at work, bravely sorting flotation samples from multiple Iron Age pits 👏