Durotriges Project

Durotriges Project Bournemouth University investigation into Late Iron Age and Roman Dorset

Having a great time digging today!The Durotrigan mud is proving a challenge in this unpredictable weather - but our arch...
02/06/2026

Having a great time digging today!
The Durotrigan mud is proving a challenge in this unpredictable weather - but our archaeologists are powering through 💪
Well done to everyone today guys, great resilience! ❤️

Meanwhile, line troweling continues in the first trench at Trying to define features (and hoping the rain will move awa...
02/06/2026

Meanwhile, line troweling continues in the first trench at

Trying to define features (and hoping the rain will move away)

Not content with just the one trench at , we've opened a secondWill it have any interesting features?Time will tell....
02/06/2026

Not content with just the one trench at , we've opened a second

Will it have any interesting features?

Time will tell....

The dig has started and (perhaps unsurprisingly) so has the rainFlaming June 🤣
01/06/2026

The dig has started and (perhaps unsurprisingly) so has the rain

Flaming June 🤣

Fun fun funIn the sun sun sunBoil boil boilWith some soil soil soil
28/05/2026

Fun fun fun
In the sun sun sun
Boil boil boil
With some soil soil soil

The main trench at is getting larger (hooray!) and there's some suspiciously prehistoric-esque features starting to ap...
27/05/2026

The main trench at is getting larger (hooray!) and there's some suspiciously prehistoric-esque features starting to appear in the chalk

Fingers crossed 🤞

Loos with a viewAll ready to *go* at
27/05/2026

Loos with a view

All ready to *go* at

And we're off! Breaking ground on - what will we find this year? Hoping for some nice prehistoric pits...🤞
26/05/2026

And we're off!

Breaking ground on - what will we find this year?

Hoping for some nice prehistoric pits...🤞

A little pre-dig pilgrimage on to the corner of the cosmos where the beganThe new plaque to Douglas Adams, freshly u...
25/05/2026

A little pre-dig pilgrimage on to the corner of the cosmos where the began

The new plaque to Douglas Adams, freshly unveiled today at Stalbridge in north Dorset

On the house where, in 1975, he heard the demolition of nearby buildings, inspiring the opening scenes of the radio show / play / TV series / book / film

Happy Towels everyone

(tomorrow we switch to trowels)

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