Blog entries in 2017

We encourage everyone involved in the CITiZAN project to contribute to our blog. Whether you're on site monitoring, in a library researching, or conducting oral history projects, we want to hear from you! To submit an article please email your regional CITiZAN Community Archaeologist with your text and up to five images.

Exploring beyond the coastal fringe

26/07/2017   |   John Matthews (Citizan volunteer)

Coastal industry like lime kilns and canals are often linked to a web of in land features including tramways, bridges and quarries. Today John Matthews, one CITiZAN's volunteers from Yorkshire explores the inland connections to a site surveyed by the Southwest team in Devon.

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An Artist Response to Orford Ness

17/07/2017   |   Debra Shipley

In June this year Suffolk based artist Debra Shipley joined CITiZAN on our training weekend on Orford Ness: this blog is her response to the landscape.

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Surveying the shipwreck of the SS Fernebo

28/06/2017   |   Andrew Gorton

A write up by Andrew Gorton, CITiZAN volunteer, of the weekend spent surveying the wreck of SS Ferenbo, Cromer, 24-25 June

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The Humble Anti-Tank Block

31/05/2017   |   Megan Clement

Anti-tank blocks are perhaps what might be considered fairly uninspiring legacy to the past. They might not be sensational as a trackway or as impressive as wrecked vessels. But they are perhaps the most resilient and abundant defensive structure you will find on the foreshore today and these were made in vast numbers to line the coasts of Britain.

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Crossing the Severn through the ages

22/04/2017   |   Alex Bellisario

The Severn River, with the world's second highest tidal range and exceedingly dangerous currents, is a monumental barrier for the movement of people who live and work in the area. Despite all of this, mastering the crossing of the River Severn saves any traveller the lengthy land detour so people have been trying and using the same crossing routes for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

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