Blog entries in 2018
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.
- CITiZAN have been shortlisted for a Charity Award 2018 for Heritage!
- Recent winter storms have uncovered lots of archaeological features around the coast of England and Citizan's staff and wonderful volunteers have been busy visiting and recording them. This is the story of one wreck on the coast of Northumberland.
- Read CITiZAN volunteer Valerie's summary of working with us at the National Trust property Orford Ness - and see where this can lead!
- Read on for news of our latest recording weekend on Orford Ness, a National Trust property on the coast of Suffolk, with a fascinating history and an incredible landscape
- Three years ago a member of the public alerted the Maritime Archaeology Trust to a wooden feature which had become exposed at low tide on the beach near Calshot in Hampshire. It has since been recorded and monitored by CITiZAN volunteers and staff and this week we received results of radiocarbon dating which showed the site to be almost 2000 years old!
And the nominees are...
09/05/2018 | Stephanie Ostrich
A wreck on Blyth beach
14/04/2018 | Andy Sherman
Return to Orford Ness - a volunteer's view
29/03/2018 | Valerie
Orford Ness: Recording The Street
21/03/2018 | Lara Band
A Roman Trackway in Calshot
01/03/2018 | Lauren Tidbury
