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Day 8 – Back to the Mud
What a difference a weekend makes! The lovely weather of last week had been blown away into a soggy, windy…
Day 7 – When one trench closes, another opens!
What a stunning day! The weather was beautiful and so were all the volunteers who turned up! The day stated…
Day 6 – Bone! Clay! Glass! Crisp Packets!
Day six began with a visit from the lovely Gwladys Street Primary school. They had learned about dinosaurs and the…
Day 5 – Sunshine after the rain!
Today we had a bit of a change around and some newbies joined us. There was a perfect start to…
Day 4 – The Weather Still Holds
Day 4 Blog - Fingers Crossed Day 4 began with some concerned looking Museum of Liverpool archaeologists turning up after…
Day 3 – The First Full Day
Day 3 began with a desperate search for Day 2. Sometime during the weekend a days worth of photos and…
Caldies Big Dig Blog – Day 1: Breaking Ground
Ok, ok… we know we said we’d start on 27th… but we’ve been too excited, and so have our volunteers!…
Connor unearths a Calderstones mystery
Ahead of The Big Dig there's been an exciting discovery made about the Calderstones themselves...and it's all down to a…
Reading and Digging Deep
The Big Dig is approaching at the end of this month and we're currently busy sifting through all of the…
The Reader South West wins at Wiltshire Public Health Awards
A huge congratulations go to The Reader Organisation in the South West, who were winners at the Wiltshire Public Health…
Geophysics in the Park: A Volunteer’s View
Last week the first physical part of the Big Dig got underway with the geophysical survey, led by the Museum…
Featured Poem: Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare
It's Shakespeare Week this week, encouraging younger generations to be inspired through encountering Shakespeare's stories, language and heritage. Therefore, there…
