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.
- Our long-time volunteer Angus looks at the industrial history of Seaham in County Durham and an unlikely celebrity visitor.
- Team North recently set course for the East coast to meet our volunteers and investigate the Humber and Lincolnshire regions. 2019 is set to be an eventful year as we bring Phase 2 of CITiZAN to Northern shores.
- CITiZAN wins support to launch 6 new Discovery Programmes, thanks to National Lottery players!
- Auburn sands, East Yorkshire retains some of the best-preserved wartime coastal defences in the whole of Yorkshire. With both First and Second World War defensive structures surviving, it is an almost unique site where both era’s defences can still be recorded and interpreted.
- During an exceptionally low tide in March 2017, a team of CITiZAN volunteers and archaeologists made a massive discovery whilie field walking the mudflats of Mersea: a 2m-long Mammoth tusk! The short tidal window meant we only had minutes to record the fragile tusk and the environment around it before it was again covered by the sea.
Seaham: "Mad, bad and dangerous to know"
01/07/2019 | Angus Stephenson
CITiZAN North Set Sail
14/05/2019 | Chris Kolonko
CITiZAN wins HLF support to launch 6 new Discovery Programmes
09/01/2019 | CITiZAN
Wartime Defences at Auburn Sands
14/12/2018 | Chris Kolonko
A glimpse of Mersea's ice age past: environmental sampling on Mersea Island
04/12/2018 | Stephanie Ostrich