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1. 'Tis the season to be digging ...: (News); The Jigsaw team have been out and about all across Cambridgeshire involved in community digs and geophysical surveys the past few weeks. One of the highlights was digging with the children of Godmanchester ...; Created on 26 June 2012
2. Digging frenzy! ...: (News); The Jigsaw team are out and about the next few weeks going from one community dig to another! Let's hope it stops raining some time soon... Watch this space for reports on our activities!; Created on 07 June 2012
3. Orwell Local History Society: (Jigsaw Groups); ... of Orwell, usually on the last Tuesday of each month. The Society has been researching the early history of Orwell over the past two years by digging archaeological test pits at various sites around ...; Created on 16 April 2018
4. Upcoming Events - March 2017: (News); ... weeks digging on part of the Romano-British settlement in 2015. As part of the second phase of excavations, there will be community work, open days, and work with primary schools. Alison Dickens is a ...; Created on 06 March 2017
5. Dig Days Are Over...: (News); ... anjourney.net/ We'll keep you posted. In the meantime, thanks to all who took part, and keep on digging! ...; Created on 17 July 2015
6. The Roman Kiln, and other digs: (News); ... eval and modern at the bottom. Phil and Rog in the new Area 2 have kept digging down into their ditch, which gets ever deeper! We're now wondering whether it's a defensive or boundary ditch, though fr ...; Created on 16 July 2015
7. From the old into the new...: (News); 13 July Today we're still finishing off digging and recording Areas 1 and 2, and the old Area 3 trenches. In Area 1, Chris is still chasing down her ditch with its lovely black fill, and still gettin ...; Created on 13 July 2015
8. Day of the Ditches: (News); ... . We're looking forward to finding out, and digging up more Medieval cow and horse bones in the meantime! Our most puzzling trench remains Trench 1, which has a layer of modern burning and redeposited natu ...; Created on 06 July 2015
9. New downloads: (News); In time for summer projects, we have uploaded two new downloads: recording sheets for digging testpits. These, and other guides on how to dig a testpit, conduct geophysical surveys and landscape ...; Created on 22 May 2014
10. Summer is icumen in: (News); May - July are the busiest months in the Jigsaw calendar! Highlights so far: STAG (St Ives) digging their first testpits. WAP (Warboys) uncovering an unknown post-medieval building in a front garden. ...; Created on 14 May 2014
11. New Testpitting Guide: (News); ... free to download. We hope this will be an easy-to-use guide both for those planning a testpitting event, but also for those digging in the field. This guide, and many others can be found in our Download ...; Created on 28 March 2014
12. Step-by-Step Guides: (Content); Excavation Step By Step Guide to Testpitting - a practical guide to testpitting digging by true archaeological contexts, rather than by 10cm spits. A Basic ...; Created on 07 March 2013