Dig Collection (page 6)

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

Winged and harnessed lioness
Poised statue guarding the king of Assurnasirpal II. One of a pair of 11 foot winged lionesses uncovered at the Assyrian dig at Nimrud

The diggers at Forest Creek, Port Phillip, Australia
The Forest Creek gold dig, Mount Alexander, Port Phillip

Issuing licenses to dig for gold
Commissioner issuing licenses to dig for gold on the banks of the Turon river, Australia

Planets - Saturn
SATURN drives his chariot through the skies, drawn by a pair of dragons : miners dig in the earth, prophets and soothsayers, magicians and witches play their trades

Albert I / Belgium / Pj 1914
King Albert of Belgium, along with senior army officers, dig trenches, keen to play their part in defending their country against the German forces

Digging a Rail Cutting
The construction of the Tring Cutting. Railway navvies dig out the earth and rock by hand with the spoil lifted up to the top of the bank by horse- powered winches

Attempt on Alexander
Police dig out a mine planted in the streets of St Petersburg, hoping to blow up the tsars carriage when it passes : a later attempt will be more successful

ARION
Arion, a Greek poet and musician, is thrown into the sea by some sailors who don t dig his kind of music, but a kindly dolphin carries him to Taenaros on its back

Pneumatic Drill
A man with curly dark hair using a pneumatic drill to dig up an old pavement

Fidelio - Liebig - 4
FIDELIO Act 3 scene 2 - Fidelio/Leonora helps Rocco dig a grave for her imprisoned husband Florestan

Fidelio - Liebig - 3
FIDELIO Act 2 scene 8 - the wicked Don Pizarro orders Rocco to dig Florestans grave : he is overheard by Leonora, disguised as Fidelio

Italy / Herculaneum
The uncovered ruins of the town of Herculaneum, buried under the pyroclastic flow from the erupting Mount Vesuvius on 24 August AD79

Digging in the Catacombs
Early Christians, with pick, shovel, and a flaming torch, dig themselves secret places for their meetings in the Roman catacombs

Finds from Mycenae / 1877
Schliemanns finds from his dig at Mycenae on display at Athens

Archaeology / Chester
An archaeological dig on a Roman site at Chester, England

Verulamium Excavations
One of Sir Mortimer Wheelers team excvating at Verulamium, a wealthy provincial town of Roman Britain, now St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England

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