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unusual facts about archaeological dig



Codnor Castle

In June 2007, Channel 4's Time Team programme carried out an archaeological dig around the castle, with some interesting results.


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Alexander Conze

With Wilhelm Dörpfeld, he started a second archaeological dig at Pergamon in 1900.

Anomalocaris

In 2011, six fossils of compound eyes dated to the Cambrian period (515 million years ago) were recovered from an archaeological dig at Emu Bay on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Bamburgh Dunes

An ancient Anglo-Saxon 7th century burial ground was unearthed in the dunes to the south east of Bamburgh Castle during an archaeological dig in 1998 by the Bamburgh Research Project.

Cap St Georges

It overlooks Yeronisos Island, currently the subject of an archaeological dig by New York University.

Henry Faulds

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

Ozette

Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site, the site of an archaeological dig at Ozette, Washington, in the United States