Field Archaeologists work on excavations – they dig, record and monitor evidence for the past. But not all archaeologists dig holes. There are many different areas of archaeology in which people work and roughly 5000 people work as archaeologists in the UK today. Click through the images below to get an idea of the different jobs people have:

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Context (1930) Grave cut [1699] (1701) Hmmm... DSC01333.JPG DSC01333.JPG DSC01333.JPG DSC01333.JPG DSC01264.JPG DSC01264.JPG Burial (1436) The gun flint from soak-away (1676) The gun flint from soak-away (1676) Context 1608 - a 19th century floor Context 1613 - a small pit - Roman, Chaz reckons Context 1588 - a big pit - again, Chaz says Roman Ruth beginning to excavate a burial Adrian recording 1506 Adrian working on 1506, a Victorian drain Working shot across site looking south Working shot looking south east across Zone 3 Context 1503 Context 1508 Context 1457 Context 1478 Context 1506 Context 1482 A building? Ruth removing the fill from a post hole Linear 1406 (1482) Part of Will's E - W linear feature (1406) (1482) - Will's E - W linear feature An eerily quiet Prescot Street site at dusk Site at dusk, looking east Prescot Street at dusk Guy and Stu demonstrating the GIS data from site A selection of the finds were available for the public to handle JoJo and the post-medieval po Finds handling JoJo showing some visitors a post-medieval pot Thursday evening's site tour The visitors tour Liz by the possible beam slot The site tour by proxy Liz and another soak away The area of Zone 3 currently under excavation From the viewing platform The rapt audience Thursday evening's tour Guy is actually enjoying public archaeology really Guy, Liz, Stu and David Bowsher DSC00894.JPG Context (1401) Discussing the pit [1271] with articulated human remains [1296] Ionut Ignoring all sense... Liz and Will working on pit [1281] Close up of David's cremation urn [1298] and skull [1299] David's cremation [1298] and skull [1299] C'mon Dave, vogue.... Gary brought sexy back Ruth and Ionut working on pit [1271] with skeleton [1296] Liz & Will in a pit [1281] Greg's shovelling technique Greg's shovelling technique #2 Greg's shovelling technique#3 They really should be advertising knitting patterns Guy The Cheese and my future husband, Ashley Ruth working on some articulated human remains Soak-away [1275] Fergal Guy photographing [1278] - Gary & Anies' soak-away Could be a pit... Why Fergal? Why? Ruth working on what looks to me like the tibia and fibula of [1296] Site shot looking south west Anies in [1278] Working shot south east Will DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00711.JPG DSC00162.JPG DSC00162.JPG Stuart Eve Steve Campion, Environmental Archaeologist