All plain sailing? Challenges involved in community archaeology projects
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2016-09-07

The Thames Discovery Programme (TDP) and the Coastal and Inter-Tidal Zone Archaeological Network (CITiZAN), both hosted by MOLA, are two of the largest community archaeology projects running in the UK. While TDP has been operating for seven years, CITiZAN, a project that grew out of TDP, only began in 2015. This paper will examine problems encountered in both starting and sustaining large scale community archaeology projects through the prism of these two programmes with a focus on the volunteer experience and their expectations of taking part in such a project.

Elliot Wragg (Thames Discovery Programme) & Oliver Hutchinson (CITiZAN)