Digging Collection (page 9)

Roman Antiquities
A group of Roman vases and utensils discovered in Barrow-on-Soar near Leicester. Skeletons were also discovered by labourers digging for limestone

Seasons / June / Potatoes
Digging up potatoes

Early Stonehenge Drawing
A wonderful early drawing of Stonehenge, not too over-elaborate in detail, and showing some early 17th century archaeologists and the bones that are digged up !

Gardening Tasks
Digging - Hotbed - Dibbling - Pruning and nailing - Grafting - Raking - Edging - Tying up

Tunisia / Carthage / Excav
Treasure-hunting excavations at the site of Ancient Carthage

The First Sand Castle by Muriel Dawson
A little girl in a red dress and a white bonnetto protect her from the sun, building her first sandcastle

Chichen Itza / Chaacmol
At Chichen Itza (site on the Yucatan Peninsula) Archaeologist August Le Plongeon and his wife pose with a colossal statue of Chaacmol, leader of the Itzaes

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

Spot of Gardening
This dependable looking chap partakes of a spot of gardening and what better to keep his chest warm than this knitted two-tone waistcoat using basket weave stitch

Poes the Gold Bug
THE GOLD BUG We dug steadily for two hours ; the treasure is discovered

Costume / Navvy
A London navvy wearing a white smock, peaked cap & stout boots, smokes his pipe as he digs a ditch. A lantern alerts passersby to mind the hole

Dante / Tomb / Ravenna / Ils
DANTE ALIGHIERI Italian poets remains discovered at Ravenna

Moscow Trenches Made
Approximately half a million Muscovites take part in the digging of anti-tank ditches around Moscow

Fall of meteorites at Hatford, Berkshire, UK
When meteorites fall at Hatford, Berkshire, Mistress Greene, a witness, has one dug up, though one of the diggers swoons in terror

Twin puppies in geranium bed
Twin puppies, Snip and Snap, bury a bone under the geranium bed and generally make a mess

Gardening 1827
A gardener digging over his garden in preparation for planting new plants

Indian Soldiers
Indian troops digging communication trenches and laying cable to connect up advanced positions in France

Old Yokel Gardener
A rustic gardener with rolled up shirt sleeves, digging in heavy soil

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

Digging out Guano / Peru
Guano mining operations: Chincha islands, Peru. The deposits of seabirds, named guano, were sought after as prized fertiliser in the nineteenth century

De Morgan Excav. / Egypt
De Morgan finds a royal chest at Dahrshar, near Saqquarah

Native Indian Myth / 1914
Feather-woman gazes down from Sky Country, where she is trapped for digging up the sacred turnip & sees the camp of the Blackfeet where she had once lived

Building a By-Pass
The sign reads By-Pass work suspended, owing to National Economy requirements, presumably due to the British Depression. Curiously, these men are still at work

Boy in Muslin Frock 1789
A young boy, Master Henry Hoare, wears a high-waisted, white muslin frock with tucks at the hem, a blue sash, white stockings & lightweight brown lace-up shoes. N.B straw hat

Culebra Cut
At work on the Culebra Cut : half hidden is one of the steam shovels digging out the bottom of the canal : the bridge is a temporary erection during construction

Garden Scene 1770
A general garden scene with people performing various operations

Digging for Victory in England during World War Two - or in this case, Forking for Victory. Self-sufficiency and growing your own vegetables was encouraged

Searching for Herne
WINDSOR CASTLE Henry VIII directs the search for Herne the Hunter

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

Belgian Nuns Gardening
The Beguins, Belgian nuns, of the Beguinage convent of Ghent, Belgium, digging and hoeing their garden vegetable patch

Garibaldi Gardening
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI - digging roots in his favourite garden

Farming 15th Century
Le Travail des Champs - farm workers sowing, plowing, harrowing, reaping, threshing, digging, planting trees &c

Countryman Digging
Countryman digging

Children on Beach 1907
Boys and girls with their spades on the sands

Digging for diamonds in South Africa
People digging for diamonds in South Africa

Panning for gold on the River Turon, Australia
Panning for gold at Sheep Station Point, on the River Turon in New South Wales, Australia

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