Dig Life

Would this be an archaeological photo exhibition without pictures from excavations? These journeys are all about a specific site...

This photo shows the sun rise on the final week of an evaluation I ran in Hertfordshire (you can see some of the trenches on the hill opposite). To me, each site is a journey. While we may have a vague idea of the final destination, the route that we navigate is unknown until we travel it.

By Stephen White

People stand outside a pub - some wear hardhats and hi-vis jackets. A small unoperated orange digger is with them.

Driving a digger through the bar of the Ye Olde Smugglers Inn, Alfriston for TV's 'Pub Dig'

By Simon Stevens

A group of young people walk towards an excavation in the countryside, carrying their equiptment.

Here they come - kids climb up to the cottage site at the Stiances Archaeological Project

By Simon Stevens

People excavate a multi-levelled, deep excavation.

This picture shows the excavation of trench 1 and trench 3 of the Uzbek- American Expedition in the Bukhara, almost at the end of this season, where we found the Wall . This site is a remarkable demonstration of the process of urban development of Bukhara city. And a documentary was filming the excavation site when the picture was taken.

By Yifan Wu

A black and white photo of people excavating in a trench under a stormy sky.

A 35mm photograph taken right before a storm hit during our first university dig at Downley in May this year. The weather doesn’t stop archaeologist.

By Dylan Elliott