News
After the success of last year’s Festival of British Archaeology the Coastal Heritage Project were keen to be involved again this year. We can now reveal we have a variety of projects for this year’s festival including excavations and guided walks in Lymington and a Archaeological Finds Identification Day in Lyndhurst. The Festival of British Archaeology runs from the 16 – 31 July 2011.
Check out these pages for more information of what’s on near you:
New Forest National Park events
Festival of British Archaeology
Coastal Detectives come to Lyndhurst
The Coastal Heritage project is hosting a free five week exhibition about the project and its activities to date at the New Forest Centre in Lyndhurst from the 12th February to the 20th March 2011. Please pay the centre a visit to find out what we’ve been up to for the last year and for a chance to get hands on with some coastal archaeology.
The New Forest coast comes to Lyndhurst
Coastal Heritage newsletter – issue 3
The third issue of the New Forest Coastal Heritage Newsletter is now available. Containing articles about the fieldwork season, from various viewpoints and a detailed look at volunteering with the project.
Coastal news - issue 3 (1 MB)
If you have any questions on any of the subjects covered or would like more information on the project, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you, The Coastal Heritage Team.
Coastal Detectives Exhibition
Join us on a journey of discovery through the past, present and future of our New Forest coast.
For the last two years archaeologists and volunteers from the New Forest National Park Authority have been working to record, interpret and promote the varied archaeological resource along the New Forest coastline. This is their story and a chance to explore and try your hand at some archaeological activities.
Venue:
The New Forest Centre, Lyndhurst: 12th Februrary to 20th March 2011
St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington: 23rd April to 28th May 2011
The New Forest Underwater Heritage Trail.
The New Forest Coastal Heritage Team, have just unveiled their new project; Hew Forest Underwater Heritage Trail. This project sees the buoying of four different shipwrecks in the Solent with a wealth of supporting literature and information allowing easy access for divers, but also something for non-divers.
Festival of British Archaeology Open Excavation. 20th – 29th July 2010
During the last two weeks of July 2010 the New Forest National Park Authority, along with Wessex Archaeology and National Park Volunteers will be undertaking an open archaeological excavation of some of the last remaining salt working sites in Pennington, Hampshire. This excavation will investigate the extent and age of one of the last remaining examples of salt production buildings in the United Kingdom as part of the Coastal Heritage Project’s overall aims to investigate and record as much of the archaeology along the New Forest Coast as possible. We are giving everybody and anybody the opportunity to visit the site as part of a guided walk and maybe even the chance to try their hand at a bit of archaeology during the National Festival of British Archaeology. For more information visit:
http://festival.britarch.ac.uk/whatson
And search your local area or contact the Coastal Heritage Team on archaeology@newforestnpa.gov.uk or 01590 646695.
Booking is essential.
Disabled access is available
Coastal Heritage newsletter – issue 2
The second issue of the New Forest Coastal Heritage Newsletter is now available. As well as detailing some of the activities the Coastal Heritage Project team have been up to, it provides information on some upcoming sun projects and volunteer updates.
Coastal news - issue 2 (1 MB)
If you have any questions on any of the subjects covered or would like to become involved with the project, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you, The Coastal Heritage Team.
New Forest Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment
The Desk-Based Survey commissioned in 2009 as part of the New Forest Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment has now been completed. No one anticipated the quantity and quality of data that it would reveal. In fact the survey has identified nearly 1000 new archaeological sites within the survey area, an amazing number that looks likely to increase further with the commencement of targeted fieldwork.
All these new sites and the ones we already knew about now make up a ‘known’ archaeological resource for the New Forest. For the first time these sites are detailed in one document, along with recommendations on how best to manage this heritage resource.
The reports can be found in the About the project section of the website
A Maritime and Marine Historic Environment Research Framework for England
The University of Southampton have been commissioned by English Heritage to co-ordinate the development of a research framework for the maritime, marine and coastal archaeology of England. This will be a useful tool in our archaeological research along the coast. Below is the latest news letter, it contains information on the current consultation on the draft chapters of the framework and the May 1st project conference which is open to everyone.
Maritime Research Framework 2010 (76 KB)
Coastal Heritage Newsletter
The Coastal Heritage project has recently published its first newsletter; showing what the Project Officer and Education and Outreach Officer have been up to since the project launch in June 2009. It also contains information on some of the publicity the project has received and news on volunteering opportunities.
Coastal news (950 KB)
If you have any questions on any of the subjects covered or would like to become involved with the project, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you, The Coastal Heritage Team.
Countryfile
BBC Countryfile profiled the Authority's Coastal Heritage Project on Sunday 13 September 2009.
The project covers the coast from 10m above sea level through the intertidal zone to six nautical miles off shore.
A film crew with presenter Matt Baker (pictured above, second right) filmed with Maritime Archaeologist Mark James (pictured above, third from left) on the Solent.
They looked at how we can identify archaeology under water and found out about sonar and shipwrecks.
The crew then moved to Hurst Spit where the project's Education and Outreach Officer James Brown (pictured top right) and two teenage volunteers were conducting surveying work.
James explained why it is so important to record this evidence now and how the project will involve volunteers at various stages from surveying to coastal and diving fieldwork.
