How to Dig Up your Antiquity by Excavating for The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor

How to Dig Up your Antiquity by Excavating

Once you have found the area where your antiquity is buried using the Antiquarian's Eye you will want to begin excavating in order to dig it up.

How to dig up your antiquity by excavating

At the excavation point a mini game will begin where you will use the agur to ping the location of the buried treasure on a grid. You have only a limited amount of actions when excavating an antiquity, and you will fail if you reach your limit before digging up the item. If you are careful and quick enough there is always the possibility that you may also uncover bonus loot during the excavation. As with scrying you can improve the effectiveness of the tools you use and get new ones by leveling up the excavation skill path. The tools you can use for excavating are listed below.

Augur

Helps you 'sense' where in the dirt the item might be.

Hand Brush

Clears away a small amount of dirt and enables you to use the Trowel and Heavy Shovel by generating Intuition.

Trowel

This tool must be unlocked, it clears away whole layers of dirt in a single cell.

Heavy Shovel

This tool must be unlocked, it clears away a small amount of dirt from a large area.