Climate Change

We are worried about damage the recent storms are doing to our coastline and to salt making sites.
Please let us know if you have any photographs of damage.

English Heritage produced a report in 2012 highlighting the threats from sea level rises and climate change.
Download link - Climate Change and the Historic Environment

Digital Back Copies of The Mundling Stick

The Lion Salt Works Project has made available all the back copies of the newsletter, The Mundling Stick written by Andrew Fielding whilst he was Project Director of the Lion Salt Works Trust employed by Vale Royal Borough Council. The newsletter was a quarterly publication produced from 1995 until Andrew left the project in 2010.

Councillor Stuart Parker, Executive Member for Culture and Economy, said: “The Mundling Stick newsletters are a real asset to the historic story of the Lion Salt Works.

“They illustrate the vital role the Trust has played in bringing us to where we are today – with the £8.8m restoration of this unique historic site well underway.

“I am delighted that the newsletters can now be accessed online. Not only is this fascinating resource more accessible to a wider audience, it is also preserved for future generations.”Trust Chairman Nick Hunt said: “The Lion Salt Works Trust have always regarded the Mundling Stick as a primary way of communicating the salt heritage story to local and wider interest groups.

“It will be an invaluable archive in understanding how the Salt Works came to be regenerated.”

Talk to Frodsham History Society, Cheshire

THE HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL SALT MAKING IN THE UK

Andrew Fielding will be talking to the 

Frodsham & District History Society 

on 

Monday 3rd February 

at 7.30pm.

meet at the Main Street Community Church, main street, Frodsham Cheshire WA6 7DF

Wales and the Sea

Andrew Fielding attended a presentation this morning in Bangor, North Wales by Maritime Heritage Wales Ltd about their project 'Wales and the Sea.

More info about this to follow. Just wanted to get the picture up on line asap.

Haen Mon on Awarded EU Protected Status

Alison Lea-Wilson from Halen Mon said; “We’re absolutely delighted that Halen Mon is the first Welsh PDO status and joins the other greats of Welsh Lamb and Beef and Pembrokeshire Early Potatoes. Consumers can now be 100% sure that when they buy Halen Mon Anglesey Sea Salt they are getting a product which has been harvested and packed in Anglesey.”

http://www.halenmon.com/modules/blog/article.aspx?id=45&title=halen_mn_wins_eu_protection
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-25733449

Coastal Erosion of Salt Sites and Salt Marshes

The weather in the UK has been very aggressive over the past month with pulses of Atlantic storm surges sweeping across the Atlantic. There has been widespread flooding and coastal erosion. Most spectacularly has been the effect of the waves at Aberystwyth esplanade.
Ecosal-UK is writing round to all our contacts to get an impression about how salt making sites and salt marshes have stood up to the intense effects of high spring tides, deep low pressure systems and storm force SW winds.
If you have any images or observations please send them in to saltmaster@ecosal-uk.org.uk

TAG 2013 - Tag-on-Sea at Bournemouth University

Ecosal-UK contributed to a session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group annual conference being held at Bournemouth University. Look out for links to the results of the conference here.