Dig Collection (page 4)

Communist Youth labour camp, Yugoslavia
Boys and girls taking part in a Communist Youth labour camp in former Yugoslavia. They were working on a river project. Date: 1963

Excavations at Ostia, Rome reveal the Oil Stores - Italy
Excavations reveal large oil storage jars at Ostia (the Ancient Port of Rome), Rome, Italy. Date: circa 1909

Happy Families - Mr Flower. circa 1940s

Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Colored engraving
Economy. 19th century. Mining. Coal mine with several floors. Colored engraving. The Art of the Illustration, 1888

Cartoon, Growing vegetables, WW1
Cartoon, Growing vegetables. Two fashionable young women inspect a vegetable garden, and discuss the use of nitrate as a fertilizer -- the same stuff they use to make beauty spots! Date: 1917

Cartoon, The distracted gardener, WW1
Cartoon, The distracted gardener. A man is having trouble remembering what he planted in his garden. He thinks it might have been a bag of sugar! Date: 1917

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Weed the Gardeners Son. circa 1930s

Happy Familes Playing Cards - Mr Flower the Gardener. circa 1935

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Weed the Gardener. circa 1930s

Japan, Two children digging for shellfish, low tide riverbed
Japan - Two children digging for shellfish on a low tide riverbed. Both hold small picks/shovels suited for this purpose. Date: 1906

Young Archaeologists
Archaeology students on a dig at the site of a Roman amphitheatre at Chester, Cheshire, England. Date: 1960s

Suez Construction 2
The great work commences : great numbers of fellaheen (native Egyptians) are recruited to dig a pathway through the desert sands. Date: 1862

Byrsa Hill, Carthage, Tunisia, North Africa
Byrsa Hill and National Museum, Carthage, Tunisia, North Africa, with an archaeological dig in progress. Date: circa 1920

Four cats with parasol on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

WW2 poster, teacher and pupils on allotment
WW2 poster (For Freedom series before lettering is added), showing a teacher and her pupils on allotment with rhubarb leaves

Temple of Mithras, Walbrook
A view from above of the site of the Roman Mithraic Temple uncovered in Walbrook, a street in the City of London, during excavations before the construction of a new office building

Men engaged in roadworks with a lorry alongside. Date: circa 1930s

SCHLIEMANN, Heinrich (1822-1890). German archaeologist. Discoverer of the ruins of Troy. Engraving

Scouts on an outdoor activity, Ghana, West Africa
Scouts taking part in an outdoor activity, Ghana, West Africa

Dividing the Finds - Iraq - Archaeology - Gertrude Bell

Allotments in Fleet Street, London, WW1
Quite possibly the innermost allotment in London, a plot between Fleet Street and Fetter Lane cultivated by two sisters, the Misses Kersey, where they grew cabbages, cauliflowers, beetroots

Growing food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

Page in wartime food booklet, WW2
Page in wartime food booklet, explaining the importance of growing your own vegetables, by the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton. Date: 1940s

A Pick Nick Down Under by William Heath Robinson
A sharp thrill in the Antipodes: one of the dangers of very deep mining. A man tunnelling through te earth with a treacherous looking pick axe surprises an Australian having managed to dig entirely

British troops digging trench, Ovillers, Western Front, WW1
Men of a Worcestershire regiment digging a communication trench near Ovillers, on the Western Front in France (Somme) during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British troops digging trenches, Western Front, WW1
British troops digging trenches in a hop field on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1916

British soldiers digging a trench, WW1
British soldiers digging a trench on the Western Front during World War One. Date: circa 1916

Inniskillings digging
Soldiers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers digging, and posing with a boy on a donkey; they are possibly in India. Date: C.1913

The Gentle Art of Excavating - A New Multi-Movement Drag Sho
A new multi-movement drag shovel excavating for the foundations of a new cinema. A typically convoluted digger, made from recycled bits of houses

Japan - Women collecting mussels on the beach at low tide. Date: circa 1910s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Home Grown
" Every pound you lend today will hasten victory on its way." A little girl and boy proudly water their window box vegetable patch - doing their bit to dig for victory during WW2

Colonial Indian Troops digging trenches on the Western Front Date: circa 1915

French sappers undermining a German trench - WWI Date: circa 1916

Pioneer Regiment entrenching in France - WWI
A Pioneer Regiment - British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks - dig trenches on the Western Front - WWI. Date: circa 1915

Protocaratops skull from Mongolia
This dinosaur lived during the Cretaceous period about 80 million years ago. This skull. roughly the size of a bear s, was found in Mongolia

Scientists at work

Flint tool from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Pakefield flint tools
Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Flint tools from the Pakefield excavation site. Manmade stone tools have been discovered in Suffolk, in the UK, and indicate humans were living there at least 680, 000 years ago

Baryonyx excavations
Team from the Natural History Museum, London at work on the excavation of the dinosaur Baryonyx walkeri at the Ockley brick pit in Surrey, England in June 1983

Fossil collecting near Aveley, Essex
Palaeontologists collecting the remains of a woolly mammoth and a straight-tusked elephant from a clay pit near Aveley, Essex in 1964

View of Middle Pleistocene site of Bilzingsleben, Germany
Showing the accumulation of mammal bones and artifacts. Lower Palaeolithic, 400, 000 years old. Photo by Chris Stringer

Excavating neanderthal remains
Excavation work which featured in a press conference at the Natural History Museum, London, December 1997

Dinosaur excavation, Niger 1988
Hessian bandage, cut into strips and lightly coated in a thin mixture of plaster, being applied to the tissue covered bone

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