Climate Change & Coastal Heritage

Protecting our Coastal Heritage

Monitoring change to inform policy

 

Protecting our Marine Heritage

Shipwrecks and submerged landscapes

Researching Remote Locations

Understanding loss at the edge

Understanding Past Environments

The past informing the future

Climate Change & Coastal Heritage

CHERISH (Climate, Heritage and Environments of Reefs, Islands, and Headlands) is a 6-year European-funded Ireland-Wales project, bringing together four partners across two nations: the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland, Aberystwyth University: Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and Geological Survey, Ireland. The project began in January 2017 and will run until June 2023. It will benefit from €4.9 million through the Ireland-Wales 2014-2020 Programme.

 

CHERISH is a truly cross-disciplinary project aimed at raising awareness and understanding of the past, present and near-future impacts of climate change, storminess, and extreme weather events on the rich cultural heritage of our sea and coast. We link land and sea and employ a variety of techniques and methods to study some of the most iconic coastal locations in Ireland and Wales.

Objectives

Developing joint good practice guidance

Permanent network of ‘local change’ fixed survey markers 

Enhanced historic environment data inventory

Enhanced palaeo-environmental data Inventory

Seamless onshore / offshore 3D models

Training the citizen scientist

Community excavations on heritage assets at risk

Open access shared web portal

Landowner management plans

CHERISH Progress

So far the CHERISH Project has carried out the following key achievements

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sites recorded
0 km²
maritime survey
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shipwrecks surveyed
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archaeological aerial photographs
0 m
cores sampled

Recent Blog Posts

An aerial photo showing a green field, promontory fort and dark blue sea
Hannah Genders Boyd

Caerfai volunteer blog: Joanne Murphy

Digging at Caerfai My name is Jo, and by day I am a Community Park Ranger, but when I’m not supporting wildlife and conservation, I love supporting archaeology, history, and the preservation of our cultures and heritage. Jo I was lucky enough to join the CHERISH funded dig at Caerfai in 2021. This Iron Age promontory site at Penpleidiau is surrounded by sea on 3 sides and protected on the north with not one but 4 (yes, 4!) rampart and ditch structures. Even though this site may seem protected, climate change and its proximity to the sea is causing it

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20 February 2023
The Albion wreck at low tide
Rachael Garside

The Albion Wreck

‘Would you like to spend the day with us on the beach at Marloes, surveying the wreck of The Albion?’  was an invitation I couldn’t

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11 February 2022

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