A new series of Britain at Low Tide is coming to Channel 4. Airing at 8pm on Saturdays from the 17 February, the six episode series features the work our CITiZAN team and other professional and community-led groups are doing to record our coastal and intertidal archaeology and the amazing stories that they are revealing along the way.

Every day, on sandy beaches and rocky foreshores, fascinating evidence of our island history appears and disappears as storms rage and the tide rolls in and out. In this second series palaeobiologist Dr Tori Herridge, CITiZAN archaeologists Gustav Milne and Oliver Hutchinson and archaeologist Charlotte Mecklenburgh explore the fascinating intertidal archaeology of Britain.

Each episode focusses on a geographical region, discovering its rich archaeology, including remains from all ages – prehistoric monuments, medieval ruins and World War Two shipwrecks. 

CITiZAN (Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network) delivers community-based training to create an infrastructure and network of volunteers with the skills and systems to be able to record, monitor and celebrate the highly significant, but fragile and threatened intertidal archaeological sites across England. CITiZAN has received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, with match funding from The Crown Estate and National Trust and further support from Historic England. MOLA is leading the project with project partners the Council for British Archaeology and the Nautical Archaeology Society.

Join in the discussion on social media with the #BritainAtLowTide. Download the CITiZAN app from ITunes or Google Play and start recording your local intertidal archaeology!

EAST SUSSEX, 17 February, 8pm on Channel 4

In East Sussex Tori and the CITiZAN team explore the wreck of a ship that went down in the 1740s, discover a prehistoric well shaft, and investigate the tale of a harbour that took 63 years to build but only worked for four months.

DORSET, 24 February, 8pm on Channel 4

Tori and the CITiZAN team visit Dorset where they reveal the story of the world’s first aircraft carriers, they discover how this coastline played a vital role in D-Day, and they search for a unique and huge Iron Age monument that can only be seen – sometimes – for a few hours a year.

CLYDE, 3 March, 8pm on Channel 4

In Glasgow Tori explores the river Clyde, finding a strange vessel on the foreshore that was instrumental in helping to create the city; she discovers a wall that changed the city forever, and an intriguing wooden structure that gives a tantalising glimpse into the world as it was on the River Clyde 2000 years ago.

THE SEVERN ESTUARY, 17 March, 8pm on Channel 4

On the Severn Estuary Tori Herridge and the CITiZAN team investigates a mysterious medieval ruin on a bleak island, a whole village that just vanished, and asks what brought Bob Dylan to the river Severn?

EAST YORKSHIRE, 24 March, 8pm on Channel 4

In Yorkshire Tori and the CITiZAN team try to work out what happened one night when a fishing trawler went wildly off course in the North Sea and discover how two ships made in Hull ended up on top of a mountain in Peru.

FIFE, 31 March, 8pm on Channel 4

On the Fife coast in Scotland Tori and a team of archaeologists search for an industry that once dominated the shoreline there, find stone carvings left by one of Scotland's oldest tribes, and learn about one of Britain's worst railway disasters.

A Tern Television Production for Channel 4

Series Producer/ Director: Michael Waterhouse

Executive Producers: Harry Bell and Brendan Hughes

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