Sep 11, 2015
We start our story in December 2012, when winter storms exposed a male human skeleton awkwardly squashed into a too small grave at the foot of the coast edge in Channerwick, Shetland. Investigation of the remains was commissioned by Historic Scotland, and radiocarbon...
Jun 16, 2015
Brochs are amongst the most spectacular of eroding coastal archaeology, and in the course of the Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project, we have seen and recorded a few of them. Hundreds of these towers of the Iron Age would once have been an impressive...
Sep 6, 2013
We’ve just had a fantastic few days in the company of ten enthusiastic young volunteers from around Europe, exploring the heritage of the Solway Coast. As part of the YES! Project (Young E-Citizens for a Sustainable European Coastline) young people from Italy,...
Apr 28, 2013
Digging on a beach certainly isn’t easy! Last week, we battled spring tides, which filled our excavation trenches with water twice a day. However, the pattern of tides changes quickly over a month – and in the second week the reach of the tide was 2 metres lower...
Apr 26, 2013
Hello from Orkney, where we’ve spent an amazing couple of weeks exploring eroding coastlines, and encountering world class archaeology in the best company of our SCHARP volunteers and new friends. It’s been the busiest, blowiest and wettest ShoreUPDATE trip yet, and...
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