A list of musical genres played on repeat over the Durotriges Dig site public address system in 2025

A list of albums played on repeat over the Durotriges Dig site public address system in 2025

A list of songs played on repeat over the Durotriges Dig site public address system in 2025

This year the #Durotriges25 excavation was fuelled by the following songs and musical genres

All of which sound great on the dig loudspeaker, public address and tannoy systems 📢🔊

(you're going to have to trust us on this)

#SpotifyWrapped

Archaeologists Ruby, Sandi and Meg, all smiling in the sun

Archaeologists Raksha and Lewis at work

Archaeologists Sandi and Bron happy by the site hut

Archaeologists Kel and Sandi examine some finds laid out on a table in the sun

Some pictures from when Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social came to visit our dig in July #Durotriges25

If you missed episode 1 of *Sandi Toksvig's Hidden Wonders*, you can still catch up at Channel 4 On Demand

www.channel4.com

The rest of the series continues on More4 Tues 9pm

Enjoy 😊

Two archaeologists in hi viz vests chat to two new assistants (not in hi viz vests)

Over on Instagram you can see what happened on the #Durotriges25 dig when #Stratmates Meg and Jon tried out two new personal assistants

👇👇👇

www.instagram.com/reel/DQUgph2...

TV presenter Sandi Toksvig in patterned shirt and hat lies next to an archaeological features with a paint brush in her right hand and green kneeling pads and a yellow bucket beside her

We can at last reveal that we had some very special visitors on the #Durotriges25 dig this summer

Episode 1 of *Hidden Wonders* with Sandi Toksvig and @rakshadigs.bsky.social, featuring an hour of Iron Age chalky goodness, is coming soon on the More4 channel

Can't wait to show you what we found

A series of 2 thousand years old sheep burials in a chalk cut pit. Scale and north arrow added

During the very last bit of context recording at #Durotriges25 we noticed a possible feature

We cleaned the feature

Asha and Megan dug the feature

It contained 4 Iron Age sheep burials

We have now recorded these

We will now stop looking for features and backfill !

Happy ##FindsFriday

An archaeologist recording a series of chalk cut prehistoric pits using spray paint to define their edges

In the very (very) final moments of recording prior to backfill at #Durotriges25, Jon is:

a) trying to plan a particularly tricky seeies of Iron Age pits using blue spray paint

b) creating an immersive piece of dystopian experimental art entitled *Despair*

#Archaeology #Dorset

Tired and dusty archaeologists celebrating the end of a dig in the summer sun

Tired and dusty archaeologists celebrating the end of a dig in the summer sun

Tired and dusty archaeologists celebrating the end of a dig in the summer sun

Aaaaaand we're done!!!

Thank you for following the #Durotriges25 excavation over the past 8 weeks and special thanks for those who interacted with, joined or visited us out in the field

It's been a blast

See you next year for #Durotriges26 !!

An archaeologist holds part of an Iron Age pottery cup

In the last feature to be dug at #durotriges25, Jade has found the larger part of a Late Iron Age black burnished ware pedestal-base cup

A very nice find to end the dig 😍

#FindsFriday

Archaeologists busy planning in the sun

Archaeologists busy planning in the sun

Archaeologists busy planning in the sun

It's day 5 of packdown at #Durotriges25 and, despite the extreme heat, the team are ensuring all records, plans and sections of Iron Age #archaeology are complete

Aerial photo of an archaeological trench showing dark prehistoric warth filled features contrasting against white chalk geology

Day 4 of packdown at #Durotriges25 and its a blur of context recording, planning, section drawing and photography

The Durotrigian drone is giving us good aerial views of specific areas of the trench

Such as this roundhouse, terraced platform, enclosure ditch, activity area combo 🤩

An archaeologist in hi vis vest, shorts and hat stands with shovel by the feature he has just finished investigating

Matt has completed the excavation of a sub #Roman terraced house platform on the hottest day of the year at #Durotriges25

He is happy 😊 👍

An archaeologist in yellow hi vis and baseball cap sits with yellow bucket next to 6 excavated Iron Age postholes

Tracey is finding, excavating and recording a whole series of prehistoric postholes at #Durotriges25

Its packdown week and we've found another Iron Age building

Of course we have 🤣

An archaeologist in purple shirt, shorts and cap crouches beside a half sectioned Iron Age pit with red and white photo scales

Nick has finished the half section of an Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25

He is happy 😊 👍👍

Want to take a quick tour of the newly discovered Iron Age roundhouse at #Durotriges25?

Of course you do 😀

Sound on 👍

#Archaeology #Archeology #Dorset

The circular gulley of an Iron Age roundhouse exposed at the centre of shot with modern wheelbarrow, yellow buckets and red fence panels

Of course, what you really want to find, 5 days after an archaeological dig has come to am end, is an Iron Age roundhouse

10m across with a door facing SE, it is gorgeous

Shame we didn’t see it earlier in the excavation 🤣

#Durotriges25 #Archaeology

The grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort and central hedgeline from the air with trees to the bottom left and centre top

It's #HillfortsWednesday huzzah!

One of our favourite Iron Age hillforts is just up the road from #Durotriges25

The small but perfectly 2ha bivallate enclosure of Rawlsbury Camp which sits on a chalk spur at the end of Bulbarrow Hill #Dorset 😍

Pic © Jo and Sue Crane 2016

A fully excavated Iron Age storage pit with red and white photo scales and an archaeological dog in hi vis vest

Pippin has finished excavating an Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25 (with Mark's help)

She is happy 🐕

Sherd of red slip Roman Samian Ware pottery featuring the head and naked torso of a man, the pottery fragment being held between the thumb and forefinger of an archaeologist

Ruby and Amy have found this sherd of #Roman Samian Ware (terra sigillata) wine cup in a feature at #Durotriges25

The naked *dad bod* torso suggests it could be a depiction of Bacchus (or possibly Hercules?)

A partially translucent flint arrowhead held between the thumb and forefinger of an archaeologist

Asha has spotted a Late Neolithic flint projectile point in the lower fill of the Iron Age pit she's working on with Alison at #Durotriges25

It's a gorgeous find (despite creating some chronological confusion)

Two Iron Age pits in half section with red and white photo scales and red safety fence. 2 archaeologists stand in background

Day 2 of packdown week at #Durotriges25

Dani has finished the half section of a large Iron Age pit whilst behind, Barnaby and Alison plough on with theirs

The differential *work tan* of an archaeologist who has just taken off their watch revealing the pale complexion beneath

Tell me your an archaeologist without telling me your an archaeologist...

#Durotriges25

An archaeologist with beard, baseball cap, white t shirt and yellow hi vis vest holds a piece of worked shale

Mark has found a large piece of worked shale from close to the bottom of an Iron Age pit at #Durotriges25

He is happy

An archaeological trench with prehistoric ditches and a small section of flint wall exposed

Day 1 of #Durotriges25 packdown

Very quiet on site today but lots of Iron Age archaeology to record!!

A mass of archaeologists stand in front of an Iron Age ditch waving enthusiastically at the camera

The #Durotriges25 team at the end of the last day's briefing

Thanks to them and everyone else who participated in the Great Durotrigian Dig

We love you guys! 👋

Aerial drone photo of an archaeological trench cut into a green field of peas, dark features contrasting against the white geological chalk

An island of chalk in a sea of green

The Iron Age ditches and pits of #Durotriges25 from the Durotrigian drone as the last full day of the dig dawns

Archaeologists, two in hi vis vests, crowd around an environmental wet sieving tank

3 archaeologists with their hands in a water tank

3 sets of hands in the water of an environmental tank

In a distant part of #Durotriges25 there is a field that is forever environmental processing

Evan, Yasmine and Emily are hard at work, bravely sorting flotation samples from multiple Iron Age pits 👏

An archaeologist holds a tiny prehistoric glass bead in the palm.of her hand

Dani has found the tiniest Iron Age glass bead in the fill of a prehistoric pit she is excavating at #Durotriges25

Well spotted !!

#FindsFriday

An archaeologist in hi vis vest crouches in an Iron Age pit excavating the skeletal remains of a raven

Sarah has found a raven skeleton in the top of an Iron Age pit at #Durotriges25

Ellie is now recording it

A happy archaeologist in hi vis vest and hard hat stands by an Iron Age pit with ladder descending

Ethan has completed the half section of his Iron Age storage pit at #Durotriges25

Despite there being no finds at the very base of the feature, he is happy 😊

Archaeologist in an Iron Age ditch

Archaeologist in an Iron Age ditch

Archaeologist in an Iron Age ditch

It's the last full day with the whole team on site at #Durotriges25

Will we get everything we need finished?

Dylan, Dani and Luke are completing the excavation of Iron Age features

They are happy 😊 👍