Dig Collection (page 5)

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

Gibraltar excavation
Excavation of Neanderthal fireplace at Vanguard Cave, Gibraltar. (Middle Palaeolithic)

Excavations, Pakistan
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London engage in excavations in Pakistan in search for fossil mammals dating back one million years

6 million year old fossils
Searching for 6 million year old fossils, Emirate of Abu Dhabi

Excavations, Niger
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum, London prepare the dinosaur fossils for transportation that have just been excavated in Niger, Northwest Africa

Dinosaur vertebrae
From a Palaeontology field trip in Niger, West Africa

Excavations, Norfolk 2006
A team of anthropologists busy working on excavations revealing ancient human occupation on the Norfolk coast, 2006. Animal remains

Elderly maid digging in the garden c. 1910

Construction of Panama Canal. Dredging works
" Construction of Panama Canal. Dredging works in the village of Culebra. Original drawing by Meltor Prior. Image published in " The Illustrated London News". Engraving."

WW2 Home front poster - Dig for Victory
" WW2 Home front poster " Dig for Victory" Date: circa 1940

Lord Mayor of London visiting NFS City fire station, WW2
The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Samuel Joseph, visiting London firefighters at the Redcross Street fire station (Fire Force 35-station C 1Z, 35-38 Redcross Street.)

Dig. Poster shows a woman (college student) sitting in a room filled with books reading a work titled Economy. A sign with text Do It Now hangs on the wall above her head. Date c1909. Dig

Soldiers digging trenches in France. First World War

French soldiers posing with their hoes
French soldiers posing with hoes used for digging trenches in front of a train carriage. First World War

A Sly Dig by William Heath Robinson
Humorous illustration showing the unfortunate sequence of events due to the energetic trench digging by a little boy on a beach, or, as the captions reads

Excavations of Roman Fort in City of London
The site of a Roman fort, uncovered during an archaeological dig in Falcon Street, in the City of London. The fort, which was built before the ancient city wall is pictured in the shadow of

Excavating in the bombed Cripplegate area
Mr W. F. Grimes, Keeper of the London Museum (Museum of London) assisted by a volunteer, archaeological worker, Miss Adrienne Farrell, in the excavations at Monkwell Street in the City of London

Two British soldiers working in a ditch, WW1
Two British soldiers working in a ditch full of water during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Growing rhubarb
A lady gardener pictured with an impressive harvest of rhubarb. The fruit bushes behind her look healthy too. c.1945

Trinidad and Tobago - Pitch Lake at La Brea Date: circa 1920s

Hydraulic drills at work on Culebra Cut, Panama Canal

Panama Canal
Location for permanent docks at Balboa, Panama Canal

Archaeological excavations, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy

Excavated Roman buildings, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy
View of some excavated Roman buildings on the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy

Preliminary preparation for a road surface
A mechanical steam-powered digger by the M.M Barrat brothers is used to break the ground in preparation for a road to be constructed

To The Rescue by William Heath Robinson
Sequential cartoon by William Heath Robinson with the first picture showing a policeman directing a large army of helpers towards a top hat and gloves lying forlornly in the snow

Young Belgians marching to dig shelter-trenches for the sold
WWI, World War One, First World War, 1st World War. World War 1, The Great War

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

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