Latest Blog entries
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.
- In November 2019 CITiZAN south-west were joined by archaeology students from the University of Southampton to undertake survey work of D-Day infrastructures at Stokes Bay and Hayling Island. Here, James MacDonell shares his experience of these sites and the amazing stories they hold.
- On until 11 February, at Nice Things, Ramsgate, is an exhibition of photographs taken at the site of Pegwell Bay Hoverport: a collaboration between the East Kent Coast Discovery Programme and members of East Kent Mencap's photography group. This blog showcases some of the photos from the exhibition and gives an overview of this 'weird but interesting' site.
- Jordan and Leanne Havell describe their volunteering experience with us over the past few years in and around Sutton on Sea.
- How far can we stretch the origins of the River Humber? What did it look like over the years before and after the river was in place? And when and which humans travelled, lived and died within the region in it’s deeper past?
- LCT 1029 struck a mine and sank off the coast of Skegness 76 years ago today.
D-Day's Secret Harbours
24/02/2020 | James MacDonell
Hovering on the edge
10/02/2020 | Lara Band
Volunteering in Sutton on Sea with CITiZAN
07/02/2020 | Leanne & Jordan Havell
The Humber's Deep Past
17/01/2020 | S Griffiths
The sinking of LCT 1029
15/01/2020 | Chris Kolonko
