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.
- Marsden Bay is in Tyne and Wear and lies between South Shields and Sunderland. It is now mostly owned by the National Trust. The bay is lined with jagged Magnesian limestone cliffs, below which the sea hollows out caves, so that eventually the cliffs fall into it.
- After a year long wait, Britain at Low Tide is back for series 2! Be sure to tune to Channel 4 from Saturday 17 Feb at 8pm for the 6-part weekly series featuring amazing archaeological sites being monitored by CITiZAN and SCAPE's Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk Be sure to join us on social media on the night where we'll be sharing extra behind the scenes facts, photos and more!
- Most people have heard the story of D-Day, and seen the remains of the huge event around our coastlines. One of the key elements was the transportation of tanks onto enemy beaches, but what became of the hundreds of landing craft that did the job? Read on for an exciting wartime discovery in Poole harbour...
- This year it was the South East team's turn to organise our annual conference so we joined up with the Thames Discovery Programme for a two day extravaganza of intertidal archaeology - read on for a multi vocal, social media generated summary of Foreshore Forum 2017!
- In this blog CITiZAN volunteer Issie Barrington writes about her weekend recording with us at Pett Level in September.
Marsden Bay: a changing coastal landscape
28/02/2018 | Angus Stephenson (Citizan volunteer)
CITiZAN sets sail for series 2 of Britain at Low Tide
08/02/2018 | Stephanie Ostrich
Poole Harbour D-Day Tank Landing Craft: The last of a dying breed?
06/12/2017 | Nick Mason
Turn the Tide! The third annual CITiZAN conference
31/10/2017 | Lara Band
Pett Level submerged forest recording weekend
18/10/2017 | Issie Barrington
