Latest Blog entries
This CITiZAN blog is written by you, the CITiZANs, and by our staff. We encourage everyone involved in the project to contribute, whether you're on site monitoring, in a library researching, or conducting oral history projects. If you would like to submit a blog, email the CITiZAN Archaeologist for Outreach in your regional office your text and up to five images.
- Every year unidentified and interesting objects are found by divers, fishermen, boat operators and visitors to our coasts. The Marine Antiquities Scheme (MAS) acts as a simple to use method of recording these finds made by members of the public from the Mean Low Water Level and wider marine environment.
- Over the last 18 months the CITiZAN team have been exploring, recording and mapping the mysterious archaeological features that are emerging from the mud. Lead by an amazing group of volunteers, the work on Mersea has focussed on the southern shore, in particular the Coopers Beach area. Here the mudflats extend some 900m to the sea, and, as we now know, back into a long lost landscape.
- This Summer CITiZAN Recorded an eroding lime-kiln in the cliff face of Dell Point in Beadnell, Northumberland. One of our volunteers has written a blog looking at some of the interesting archaeology around Beadnell looking at the lime and fishing industry there.
- A look at CITiZAN archaeologists' and volunteers' monitoring trip to Orford Ness, following the high winds and surge of 14 January.
- A blog written by York University placement student Eleri Newman, looking at the development of prehistoric boats.
Marine Antiquities Scheme explained
28/02/2017 | Marine Antiquities Scheme (MAS)
The Mersea Timbers: Part One - The Discovery
14/02/2017 | Oliver Hutchinson
A Stroll Around Beadnell
01/02/2017 | Angus Stephenson
Orford Ness revisited
27/01/2017 | Lara Band
Learning all about prehistoric boats
29/12/2016 | Eleri Newman
