{"id":2804,"date":"2026-03-02T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/?page_id=2804"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:38:26","slug":"what-next","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/?page_id=2804","title":{"rendered":"What Next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After twenty two years with the CAU (Cambridge Archaeology Unit) and a lot longer with various other units and museums I&#8217;ve finally got round to retiring. Although this means I won&#8217;t have as many opportunities to continue the &#8220;Archdiggers&#8221; project I still have a large backlog in the archives to deal with and several projects I always ment to get around too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CL_DSC9067-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CL_DSC9067-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CL_DSC9067-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CL_DSC9067-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CL_DSC9067-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CL_DSC9067.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d57f2a7-b4e1-4739-b95f-dac43e38486a-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d57f2a7-b4e1-4739-b95f-dac43e38486a-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d57f2a7-b4e1-4739-b95f-dac43e38486a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d57f2a7-b4e1-4739-b95f-dac43e38486a-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9d57f2a7-b4e1-4739-b95f-dac43e38486a-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A few kind words from Chris Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2631707e-9b86-4fe3-b565-cb97ff0767de-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2631707e-9b86-4fe3-b565-cb97ff0767de-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2631707e-9b86-4fe3-b565-cb97ff0767de-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2631707e-9b86-4fe3-b565-cb97ff0767de-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2631707e-9b86-4fe3-b565-cb97ff0767de-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A few of my own<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9f0f2997-6fbb-4f93-a382-10a46d36bfae-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9f0f2997-6fbb-4f93-a382-10a46d36bfae-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9f0f2997-6fbb-4f93-a382-10a46d36bfae-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9f0f2997-6fbb-4f93-a382-10a46d36bfae-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9f0f2997-6fbb-4f93-a382-10a46d36bfae-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Card &#8211; photos by David Matzliach who will be taking over my role<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After twenty two years with the CAU (Cambridge Archaeology Unit) and a lot longer with various other units and museums I&#8217;ve finally got round to retiring. Although this means I won&#8217;t have as many opportunities to continue the &#8220;Archdiggers&#8221; project I still have a large backlog in the archives to deal with and several projects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/?page_id=2804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Next&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}