“Islanders are being asked to help record how the sea is eroding Scilly’s historic coastal sites, before it’s too late.
Charlie Johns, Cornwall Council’s archaeologist, is back in the islands to set up a Shorewatch group. He’s hoping to start sessions, where volunteers will record data from areas threatened by erosion.
Charlie says a similar approach has been very successful in Scotland with each island group having it’s own Shorewatch team.
The areas that will be surveyed here include the bronze-age remains jutting out of the cliff at Halangy on St Mary’s and the Old Quay on St Martin’s, where 5,000 year old Neolithic pottery has been uncovered,”
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