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.
- 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.
- Read all about the exciting work CITiZAN carried out in 2015-18 and download a PDF copy of our project report.
- CITiZAN volunteer Angus Stephenson continues his exploration of the seacoal industry in the North-East which has now almost vanished...almost.
- CITiZAN Volunteer Angus explores the coastal landscape of the coal industry in the North East, as featured in the 1971 cult British gangster film “Get Carter”
- At the height of the invasion scare, during WWII, hundreds of miles of anti-invasion defenses were built along Britain's beaches & clifftops. Thousands of tons of concrete was molded into anti-tank blocks and pillboxes and many now vanished slit trenches were dug. Here one of our newest members of staff, Chris Kolonko, looks at how these defenses can be studied.
A glimpse of Mersea's ice age past: environmental sampling on Mersea Island
04/12/2018 | Stephanie Ostrich
CITiZAN 2015-2018: a review
01/12/2018 | Stephanie Ostrich
Seacoal: “A Vayne of Secoles”
20/11/2018 | Angus Stephenson
Seacoal: “An Absolute Vision of Hell"
01/11/2018 | Angus Stephenson
Defending the coast at Reighton Sands
03/08/2018 | Chris Kolonko
