CITiZAN, the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network, has been awarded £1,764,700 of National Lottery funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to establish six Discovery Programmes in areas where the risk to intertidal and coastal archaeology is extreme. Thanks to National Lottery players the CITiZAN Discovery Programmes will be established on sites on the Mersey, the Humber, the Blackwater, the Kent coast, the Solent and three rivers in Devon in 2019.
Over the past three years CITiZAN has developed a community-based programme in England that records and monitors threatened coastal and intertidal archaeological sites. Archaeological remains are preserved by record by local volunteers using a standardised survey system available via the CITiZAN app. The detailed records have already revealed new information about the rich history and former landscapes of our coast, from a Bronze Age well and ancient timber trackways, to the remains of several shipwrecks and even a First World War German U-boat. The programme is also providing invaluable data on long-term trends in relative sea level rise, coastal change and, crucially, climate change.
Here's a short video about the CITiZAN Discovery Programmes...
