June 2010
NORFOLK’S
COASTAL HERITAGE
NEWSLETTER – ISSUE 3
Research Skills Dayschool
A one-day taught course for anyone wishing to
develop their historical and archaeological research
skills will be held in St Mary’s Church Rooms,
Happisburgh, on Saturday 17th July 2010.
The day will run from 10am until 4pm and will
comprise four linked sessions. Subjects to be
covered include the use of documentary sources,
historic maps and aerial photographs; conducting
oral history interviews; the principles of historic
Happisburgh’s 1834 tithe map
building
recording;
and
how
to
conduct
archaeological fieldwalking surveys.
The day is provided free of charge, but places are
limited and should be booked by contacting the
Project Officer (details overleaf).
Don’t worry if you can’t make the course on 17th July
– a series of similar dayschools will be running
throughout the summer in a range of coastal
locations. Full details of these courses will follow in
Building recording in Happisburgh
future newsletters.
Exhibitions in Coastal Libraries
During the coming months the Coastal Heritage project will be delivering a touring
exhibition and series of talks in Norfolk’s coastal libraries. The first exhibition will be
in Stalham Library from 16th–27th August 2010, with an illustrated talk on Norfolk’s
Coastal Heritage taking place in the library on Thursday 19th August at 7:30pm.
Other libraries at which the exhibition will be appearing include Mundesley,
Sheringham and Cromer. Further details will be included in future newsletters.
Royal Norfolk Show
The Coastal Heritage project will be exhibiting at the Royal Norfolk
Show at the Norfolk Showground on 30th June and 1st July 2010. If
you are at the show, drop into the One Stop Country Shop and say
hello!
Happisburgh Beach Excavation Tours
Saturday 5th June 2010 saw some 75 people take up the opportunity to tour the
archaeological excavations which were being undertaken on Happisburgh beach as a
part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project. Visitors were treated to
presentations on the project’s findings from Nick Ashton, Simon Parfitt, Peter Hoare
and Nigel Larkin, and were also afforded the opportunity to handle artefacts
recovered during the excavations. Thanks are due to the excavation team for
welcoming visitors to the site and making the tours such a success.
Visitors to the archaeological excavations on Happisburgh Beach
Volunteers Wanted
We would still like to hear from volunteers who are interested in undertaking
archaeological monitoring of cliffs and beaches, archaeological fieldwalking, historic
building recording, oral history interviews or the archiving of old photographs. If you
are interested in any of these activities please contact the Project Officer.
For further details of the Coastal Heritage
Project and to sign up for activities or regular
updates please contact:
For further details of North Norfolk District
Council’s Coastal Change Pathfinder
Programme please contact:
Richard Hoggett
Marti Tipper
Coastal Heritage Project Officer
Coastal Management Team
Norfolk Landscape Archaeology, Union House,
Gressenhall, Norfolk, NR20 4DR
North Norfolk District Council, Holt Road,
Cromer, Norfolk, NR27 9EN
Telephone: 01362 869277
Telephone: 01263 516004
richard.hoggett@norfolk.gov.uk
coastalmanagement@north-norfolk.gov.uk
If you need this document in large print, audio, Braille,
alternative format or in a different language please contact
Richard Hoggett on 01362 869277.
Previous newsletters and other project information are available from the Coastal Heritage page of the
North Norfolk Pathfinder website: http://www.northnorfolk.org/pathfinder/happisburgh_heritage.asp