The CHERISH Toolkit: Investigating Heritage and Climate Change in Coastal and Maritime Environments. Case Studies from Wales and Ireland.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 2022 the EU-funded CHERISH project published its practice guide and methodology to monitor and understand the past, present and near-future impacts of climate change on the rich coastal heritage of Wales and Ireland. The publication looks at the CHERISH ‘toolkit’ – the range of technology and methods employed by the project, and integrates a range of disciplines including archaeology, geomatics, geography, paleoecology, geomorphology and maritime geophysics. Toolkit methods combine air, land and sea-based approaches and are both non-invasive and invasive, covering everything from UAV survey and rapid coastal zone assessment to palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and excavation.

This paper will introduce the CHERISH project, its Toolkit approach and the guidance document, with case study examples from across the coastal and maritime zone of Wales and Ireland.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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