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.
- A surgeon's science lectures in 1856, a temporary hospital for an epidemic in 1897 and a lucky escape from a blizzard for the coble Jane Douglas in 1894: what do these three events have in common? They all took place in a simple wooden hut in Beadnell.
- A volunteer's perspective of a CITiZAN Training Event on three timber hulks found at Earles Shipyard on the banks of the River Humber.
- A blog post exploring the history of these unique historic vessels and the fates of five of them now being recorded by CITiZAN.
- Centuries after it was carved and decades after it was first recorded, CITiZAN volunteers relocate the long lost Bronze Age shaft at Belle Tout!
- Find out about the CITiZAN south west's team exploits in Dunster, Somerset with Historic England and the Dunster Museum Archaeology Group
The Reading Room, Beadnell
20/06/2016 | Katrina Porteous (Local Historian)
Earles Shipyard, Hull: A volunteer's experience
07/06/2016 | Ken Parker (Citizan volunteer)
Red Sails in the Sunset: Thames sailing barges and their remains at Maldon, Essex
06/05/2016 | Lara Band
Lost and found!: rediscovering the Bronze Age shaft at Belle Tout
19/04/2016 | Oliver Hutchinson
Discovering the coast of Dunster, Somerset
14/04/2016 | Alex B
