Blog entries in 2016
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.
- Submerged prehistoric landscapes can be found all along the English coastline, most of these are vulnerable to rising sea levels, severe storms and the erosion of the tide. They are one of the key types of sites CITiZAN are focusing on. This blog focuses on three such sites: Cleethorpes, Hightown and Pett Level.
- John Matthews, one of Team North's most regular volunteers, discovered CITiZAN and inter-tidal archaeology on a sunny day in Cleethorpes in 2015 where he helped record a prehistoric trackway eroding out of the peat. This day on site rekindled his interest in archaeology and helped inspire a surprising passion for 20th-century coastal defences.
- The initial survey results of the enclosure on Tennyson Down looked exciting, however we did not find all that we expected to!
- Find out about the surprising archaeology which can be found on the remote Howick foreshore on the Northumberland Coast; from bathing pools to submerged forest to submarines.
- "Archaeology has enhanced my well-being," says Sally, UCL post-grad student and CITiZAN and TDP volunteer. She wants to know if you agree! Would you fill out a short survey to help her studies?
Three Submerged Forests
25/08/2016 | Megan Clement and Lara Band
Getting into intertidal archaeology
02/08/2016 | John Matthews (CITiZAN Volunteer)
The excavations of Tennyson Down - following one of CITiZAN's archaeologists
01/08/2016 | Alex B
Howick: A remote coastline with a long history
14/07/2016 | Megan Clement
Archaeology and well-being: a survey of volunteers
30/06/2016 | Sally Gray
