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.
- 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.
- The Roman's built a signal station on the promontory dividing Scarborough into the South and North Bay and Norman's built a large castle on the same promontory. The town is supposedly named after a Viking called Thorgils Skarthis in the 10th century. But is it England's first seaside resort?
- As part of the Festival of British Archaeology, CITiZAN were out rapidly recording the coastline using our app. Find out what we came across at Roa Island, near Barrow-in-Furness, with our volunteers and partners Headland to Headspace, Morecambe Bay Partnership.
- Coastal industry like lime kilns and canals are often linked to a web of in land features including tramways, bridges and quarries. Today John Matthews, one CITiZAN's volunteers from Yorkshire explores the inland connections to a site surveyed by the Southwest team in Devon.
Turn the Tide! The third annual CITiZAN conference
31/10/2017 | Lara Band
Pett Level submerged forest recording weekend
18/10/2017 | Issie Barrington
Scarborough: The first seaside resort?
24/08/2017 | Andy Sherman
Rapid recording on Roa (Barrow-in-Furness)
04/08/2017 | Megan Clement
Exploring beyond the coastal fringe
26/07/2017 | John Matthews (Citizan volunteer)