Diggers is still current in the UK as is dig as a term for excavtion. There
is even a radical newsletter "The Digger".
Of course there were the C17 Diggers - a radical group in the English Civil
War so called for digging up the commons.
paul courtney
leicester
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Subject: Re: [Shovelbums] New poll for shovelbums (fwd)
> Another favorite in the 1970s was "Archaeology Gypsy"
>