Wednesday 22 February 2023

Finding Flints

Dorset Diggers Community Archaeology Group: Finding Flints: This is a little film about how to distinguish between natural flint and human made tools. If you have found anything that you may think ...

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Geophysical Survey


The geophysics team undertook a survey at the Bottle Inn last week and covered the first and largest area we are interested in. Other, smaller, areas will be surveyed later. Lots of walking up and down and many beeps later it was finished. Luckily the weather was mild and no rain.  

Thursday 16 February 2023

AGM

 

People begin to arrive for the AGM

Our AGM saw a good turnout. A new committee is being put together by the new Chair, Chris Tripp. 

Membership is climbing, due to the Facebook message asking for people to get involved with the two projects just beginning. The Bottle Inn geophysics results will be shown here soon. 

The Group is now represented on the new Dorset Archaeological Forum.

Stalbridge House has finished and the History Society now has all the archive of four seasons of excavation.

We hope to have two events happening in the Spring, one to Martin Green's museum and a visit to the new exhibition on the Archaeology of Crete in Oxford.  


AGM 2024

 The DDCAG AGM took place and we discussed the forthcoming sites that we will be working on this year. The DMV in East Dorset was presented ...