Hugely enjoyed #Durotriges26 today! great to get back to the site & see the progress from this year 😊 Huge well done to everyone for their hard work

@durotrigesdig.bsky.social Made it this year. Intergenerational visit with my son and granddaughter. Excellent visit. Thanks to everyone. #bigdig #durotrigesdig #Dorset

Highlight of the #Durotriges26 Open Day @durotrigesdig.bsky.social? Enjoying Miles's excitement at the two overlapping Iron Age roundhouses in the 'emergency trench'. 😆👏 The later one was built through the remains of the older one. It was occupied around the very time of the Romans' arrival.

Listening to Miles Russell give a very entertaining tour of two beautiful Iron Age roundhouses at the @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day, and two old blokes having a lovely catch up afterwards.

A splendid morning at the #Durotriges26 open day @durotrigesdig.bsky.social! Was on the first tour & all the presentations were top-class. 👏 Many thanks to everyone there. 🙌 Nicely finished off with fish & chips and a half-pint* of Duropolis Rising. *I was driving 😇

And first in the queue (for the 4th year running) is Lee 🏅 30 minutes early 😅 #durotriges26

Final spot of Iron Age charioteering before I leave wonderful Chalke. Magical weekend, and can’t emphasise how hard the chariot builders worked in impossible heat to enable this. Next stop @durotrigesdig.bsky.social open day!

Another fascinating visit to the @durotrigesdig.bsky.social dig near Winterbourne Kingston. They are discovering so much about late iron age culture and the arrival of Roman people in Dorset. Thank you all for sharing what you are discovering. @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

The finds team are ready for the #Durotriges26 open day They have stickers and colouring sheets too 😊👍

The team are ready and waiting for the #Durotriges26 open day !!

Can't wait to see you out in your natural habitat

⚠️ UPDATE ⚠️ Following the extension of the extreme weather event warning by the Met Office into tomorrow evening, with temperatures set to approach 35°, we have decided to CANCEL work on the big dig #Durotriges26 site for THURSDAY 25 JUNE Apologies Normal service will be resumed on FRIDAY 👋

Given the extreme weather event forecast for Southern Britain, we have decided to CANCEL work on the big dig #Durotriges26 site for WEDNESDAY 24 June Apologies Normal service will hopefully be resumed on Thursday 👋

Don't forget that our annual big dig OPEN DAY is next Sunday 28 June !! 🥳 #Durotriges26 Your once a year opportunity to see us in the wild (and experience the Big Dig Brewhouse, chippy and the glorious rural landscape of central Dorset) 👇👇👇

Happy longest day, everyone!

DO YOU HAVE A DIG OR ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT YOU THINK REALLY OUGHT TO BE ON DIGGING FOR BRITAIN SERIES 14? Then email [email protected] and maybe @toriherridge.bsky.social Rosanna or I will get to come out and visit! www.instagram.com/reel/DZViJ2T...

⚠️ Durotriges Big Dig OPEN DAY alert ⚠️ Sunday 28 June 10-4.30 Free Parking (on private land) at North West Farm Winterborne Kingston Dorset DT11 9AT The dig is a 20 min walk but minibuses are available Guided tours PLUS the Big Dig Brewhouse, cafe + chips!! Maybe see you there? #Durotriges26

It's carnyx time! Practising pointing with an Iron Age war trumpet at #Durotriges26

Open day alert ⚠️ Ooo, oooo, oooooo And, may we add, oooooooooo! ⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️

It's carnyx time! Practising pointing with an Iron Age war trumpet at #Durotriges26

It’s a must do!

Open day alert ⚠️ Ooo, oooo, oooooo And, may we add, oooooooooo! ⏬️⏬️⏬️⏬️

😎🤩😍😍

Or, rather more worryingly...

On social media again, when he should be digging... 🙄

There are few better ways to spend one's birthday than visiting a new hillfort, or fishing a new stream. This year the fishing may have to wait for tomorrow - Charlbury is my birthday hillfort today! #hillforts

Or, rather more worryingly...

I am still very happy! It was amazing to lift one large chunk of pot (albeit in several pieces) and find another one underneath, and another underneath that.

Our trench at #Durotriges26 is currently filled with Dag and Gubber

Good finds always appear right at the end of the day. This has been reburied to protect it from tomorrow's rain. I'll just have to wait to lift this (fancy) piece of Black-burnished ware. #Durotriges26

A beautiful afternoon at #Durotriges26, and the ground dried out pretty quickly. I was working on a small pit with some carefully arranged flints over a.... find out tomorrow.

Disputed lyrics no. 73 *Car Wash* by Rose Royce (1976): "You might not ever get rich" (True) ✅️ "But let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch" (False) ❌️ Whatever *it* is, digging an Iron Age ditch at #Durotriges26 is so much better

Immediate and unrestricted hypocaust-standing privileges awarded to all three of these. ✅

😎🤩😍😍

Well shiver me timbers ... Maritime #archaeologists from #Bournemouth #University believe it forms a missing piece of the Swash Channel wreck that was first discovered in the 1990s in a key shipping approach to #Poole #Harbour. @nationaltrust.org.uk #StudlandBay #Dorset www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Horse mandible in an Iron Age ditch The Durotriges are back 🥳 #Durotriges26 late on a #FindsFriday

I just KNOW this series is going to be so much fun. Meg @megsdigs.bsky.social, Rosanna and I are totally on the same wavelength. And it’s a VIBE

Go Meg, go @buarchanth.bsky.social!

Ramparts of mighty Maiden Castle, with extra sheep. Stronghold of the Durotriges tribe, one of the largest and most complex hillforts in Europe. ‘Multivallate’ doesn’t do justice to the maze like ramparts around East and West entrances 📸 way back in Sept 21 #HillfortsWednesday

"If you wanna be a good archeologist, you gotta get out of the library" 😆

"If you wanna be a good archeologist, you gotta get out of the library" 😆

Durotriges Big Dig 26 day 1 "before the rain came". Special archaeology sniffer dog deployed to find the archaeology. @durotrigesdig.bsky.social

Over on our Durotriges Big Dig #Instagram channel you can follow every aspect of the excavation (including how we warm up every day) #Durotriges26 👇👇👇 www.instagram.com/reel/DZDP6uh...

A recently recognised 80 metre #Neolithic long barrow near the coast at Southbourne in West #Sussex. To find out more, read this thread or check out this article: wp.me/pgKiQE-2r #Archaeology ... 1/10

Exciting days ahead 🤩

Exciting days ahead 🤩

Fossil collector & self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning's discoveries revolutionized our understanding of prehistoric life. "The greatest fossilist the world ever knew," she made her finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds along the cliffs of Lyme Regis (UK). Born #OTD in 1799. #WomenInSTEM

One day (very soon), this will all be trench Watch this space... #Durotriges26 #Archaeology 🏺

We had a wonderful day with @megs_digs this past Saturday during our day school! See our Instagram for all of the details! The final day-school for the summer season is on June 20th at Patcham Community Centre. DM for more info on booking.

Hengistbury Head, Dorset, UK.