FROM THE BLOG
Field Notes
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Welcome to Dig Alderney
Join the adventure! Over the coming months we will be populating this site with up to date news, archival information on our past excavations and reference material for Alderney’s historic sites. You’ll also find day-by-day accounts of excavations on our Facebook page and selective videos on the Guernsey Archaeology Youtube Channel. Feel free to share…
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Les Huguettes Excavations
A substantial report on the excavations at the Iron Age site on Les Huguettes by Dr Phil de Jersey is published in the latest volume of The Alderney Society Bulletin.
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Welcome to Dig Alderney
Join the adventure! Over the coming months we will be populating this site with up to date news, archival information on our past excavations and reference material for Alderney’s historic sites. You’ll also find day-by-day accounts of excavations on our Facebook page and selective videos on the Guernsey Archaeology Youtube Channel. Feel free to share…
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An Unexpected Find
Our team of friends and colleagues have been digging on Alderney every year since 2007, with an understandable break in 2020. Our initial focus was on the Roman fort at the Nunnery, but chance discoveries in an electric trench in 2017 led to our attention shifting to nearby Longis common. Dig Alderney divided its efforts…
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Whitegates 2026
During May 2026, Dig Alderney supported by Guernsey Museum Archaeology investigated the site known as Whitegates. This stands on the high ground overlooking Longis, adjacent to the railway track. Whitegates was a Victorian building constructed the house some of the British garrison but was later used for civilian housing. Being beyond reasonable repair, it was…
