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One of the nicer finds from the Alton Big Dig was an unusual clay pipe bowl seen below. What is unusual about this pipe bowl is that it bears the crest of th...

Some final views from above of the dig site in the Public Gardens, followed by the team filling in the test pits and relaying the turf.

The last fortnight seems to have gone very quickly and sadly today was the last day of the Alton Big Dig - for this year anyway. Tomorrow we finish recordin...

Just a short blog post this evening because I was only on site until 2.45 pm today before going to my new neighbours' housewarming party. I spent almost all...

Before I forget, thanks Carl for your lovely home-baked cake! We found a child's or baby's chain bracelet while digging a few days ago. I think it is made o...

Before I say anything about the rest of the day I just want to say thank you and well done to Tina in particular, and also to Jordan of the Town Council's gr...

Right from the start today was scorching, especially for anyone digging in a hole in the ground or cleaning and recording finds. We were so grateful to have...

I have been offsite much of the day today - this morning helping Carl with geophysics in a garden in Lenten Street and this afternoon pulling together conten...

Juliet and I having been interviewed on Wey Valley Radio yesterday, it was our turn today to appear on That's TV: David Graham, the well-known local archaeol...

The more observant amongst you will have noticed that I missed a day yesterday, for which I apologise. We were so busy with visitors, it being a weekend att...

I'm looking after my 2-year old grandson Ted for 3 days while his parents are visiting Singapore and my wife is at the Tatton Park flower show with friends, ...

I was quite surprised when I got up this morning to see that it was raining hard enough for me to have to wear a coat while walking through Alton to the Publ...

For the diggers it must be quite tedious at the moment because we are still in the early stages of this dig, the soil is quite hard and the test pits are for...

I was not on site most of today because of looking after my 2-year old grandson but turned up for morning brief and then twice during the day to see how thin...

One of the best things for me about this Dig in Alton is the number of new members it has attracted - probably about 30 so far. So at the morning briefing a...

We arrived at the Gardens this morning just as everyone was tidying up after yesterday's 'Last Night of the Proms' and the first couple of hours were spent s...

Today Keith, Juliet and I knocked on doors all along the northern side of Lenten Street to ask for permission to dig test pits in people's back gardens durin...

In preparation for our digs we usually try to take some survey photos beforehand with one of our drones, partly to see if there are any 'parch marks' and par...