ARS at 15 – Low Hauxley

As part of our 15th birthday celebrations this year we will be reminiscing on some of our flagship projects from the last 15 years. For this post we are going to look back on our 2013 excavation at Low Hauxley in Northumberland.

The site is located south of the River Amble and close to the Northumberland Wildlife Trust’s (NWT) nature reserve. Over the last 35 years the site has been subjected to considerable damage caused by coastal erosion and the project aimed to build on the work of previous excavations in the area since the 1980’s. It was through the collaboration between ARS and the NWT, as well as with support from Northumberland County Council, seven leading UK Universities, Natural England, Historic England and the Great North Museum: Hancock that the Rescued from the Sea project commenced.

Here, Dr Clive Waddington reminisces on the project and what it achieved:

For more information on the project please click here.

If you wish to purchase a copy of the monograph ‘Archaeology and Environment in the North Sea Littoral: A Case Study from Low Hauxley’ then you can do so either from the Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre or online from Oxbow Books.