Dec 2, 2019
Why on earth would you cut hundreds of small circular holes into the hull of your boat? Only to painstakingly plug them all again? That was a question we pondered in 2015 when we first visited Gibbhill in Kirkcudbright Bay and saw this old wooden trawler resting on...
May 29, 2019
One of the joys of coastal archaeology is that it encompasses sites of all types and periods. A recent recording visit to three stretches of the Solway coast with the Coastwise Project and local volunteers took us from remnants of Mesolithic forest to secretive D-Day...
Feb 12, 2013
Last week we had another taste of the beautiful, historically fascinating shores of the Solway Firth. Our first ShoreUPDATE day in the area was in Stranraer Museum where volunteers got to grips with the Sites at Risk Map and used it to explore the local coast, aided...
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