Monday, 1 January 2018

New Information Boards at Aveiro Salina

New information boards have been erected at Ecomuseu Marinha da Troncalhada, Aveiro, Portugal.
Ecosal-UK was pleased to have been asked to help with the English language translation.





Monday, 11 December 2017

“Salt: history, heritage and tourism” Arc-et-Senans (Doubs, France), 5 and 6 April 2018

https://mshe.univ-fcomte.fr/documents/actualites/2018_04_5-6_Symposium_Salt_4-5_April_Posters.pdf

CALL FOR POSTERS International symposium on Salt – Terra Salina 2018
“Salt: history, heritage and tourism” Arc-et-Senans (Doubs, France), 5 and 6 April 2018

Seven UNESCO World Heritage sites, five thermal towns and four salt-making sites (the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains, the Bex Salt Mines Foundation and the Swiss Saltworks of Basel) are concerned by the project “Terra Salina: Salt heritage and economic development”.
As part of the project, an international symposium entitled “Salt: history, heritage and tourism” will be held at the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans the 5th and 6th of April 2018. It will focus on the manner in which cultural representations, workers’ memories, individual or collective initiatives, political choices and economic oppurtunities led to transfer and conversion models of salt heritage.

The long-terms objectives are: to federate participants of the european salt network, to update current scientific knowledge about the theme, and to increase the value of this knowledge thanks to the promotional tools for heritage and tourism of “Terra Salina”.

During these two days, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers are invited to present, as posters, research works entering into the symposium issue.


– email: edinadzogovic@salineroyale.com
Posters proposal PhD students and postdoctoral researchers (graduated for less than 3 years) who would like to present a poster, need to fill in the enclosed form and send it before 15 January 2018 at the following address: mshe@mshe.univ-fcomte.fr.
Proposals will be studied by the scientific committee of the symposium.
Annoucement/Publication Posters will be posted on the website after the validation of the scientific committee. Scientific committee members Philippe BARRAL, university lecturer at the university of Bourgogne Franche-Comté Isabelle SALLE, director of the center Culture & Heritage at the Royal Saltwoks of Arc-etSenans Christian SCHÜLE, historian Raphaël FAVEREAUX, researcher for the unit List of heritage sites of the Region BourgogneFranche-Comté Marina GASNIER, senior lecturer HDR – History of techniques and industrial heritage, university of Bourgogne Franche-Comté Katia HUESO, advisor at the university Pontificia Comillas in Madrid Olivier WELLER, CNRS reserach fellow – University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Organisation committee members Edina DZOGOVIC, european project manager EPCC the Royal Saltwoks of Arc-et-Senans Anaïs KOPF, in charge of the life of european projects EPCC the Royal Saltwoks of Arc-etSenans Isabelle MOURET, secretary-general of the MSHE Claude Nicolas Ledoux Lionel VIARD, cultural comanager, center Culture & Heritage at the Royal Saltwoks of Arc-etSenans

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Saltcote Number 5

We are compiling our fifth newsletter. Do you have dates, events or activities relating to salt that you would like us to include?
Pleases send us text and photos asap for inclusion in Saltcote No.5 by 7th December.

Sunday, 29 October 2017

Video of Tom Lane's Talk to European Archaeologists Association in Dec 2015

Video recording of Tom Lane's talk in 2015 at the European Archaeologist's Association meeting in Glasgow.
Impacts of Climate and Environmental Change: The effects on coastal saltmaking in Lincolnshire, UK.
Tom is a Director of Ecosal-UK.
Published in the Journal
The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice 
Volume 8, 2017 - Issue 2
EAA Session LV4 - CLIMATE CHANGE AND HERITAGE MANAGEMENT: MEASURING AND MONITORING THE IMPACTS OF FUTURE CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON THE HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURAL RESOURCES



Saturday, 7 October 2017

2nd International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt

The 2nd Congress will be held in Mexico 12- 16 October 2017.

Link to the web site -http://saluniversalis.com/

Facebook link

Andrew Fielding of Ecosal-UK and Salford University will be giving a paper via a Skype link.
Details to follow.


Sadly there were technical difficulties in Mexico and the Skype presentations did not happen.
I hope this presentation can be added to the pod cast archive of the conference.

Wednesday, 16 August 2017

The 37th North West Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference (NWIAC 37) will be on Saturday 23rd September 2017. CBA North West have teamed up with the Saltscape Landscape Partnership and the Centre for Applied Archaeology at the University of Salford to bring you the latest regional research on the archaeology of the salt industry.
The last regional conference on this theme was in October 2002 and that led to the ‘Brine in Britannia’ monograph, which CBA NW published in 2005. Like then, this conference will be hosted by the Lion Salt Works and thanks to HLF support will be free. The talks will focus mainly on the post-medieval industry, and will include the results of two seasons of work by Salford University at the Ollershaw Lane Salt Works site, opposite the Lion Salt Works.
Details of the North West Regional Research Update project will be available on the day, along with draft copies of the Post-Medieval and Industrial resource chapters.
Online booking can be found here:
NWIAC 37 Saltscape Programme
9.30 Registration, tea coffee.

10.00 Introduction

10.10 – Andrew Fielding: Archaeology and Salt in Britain – latest research10.40 – Mike Nevell: The Archaeology of Salt in Cheshire11.10 – Sarah Cattell: Excavations at Ollershaw Lane salt Works, 2016 to 201711.40 – Chris Wild: The Murgatroyd Brine Pump12.10 – David George: Salt in West Cumbria12.30 – Roy Forshaw: Salt in the Merseyside area: recent work

13.00 – 14.00 lunch14.00 – Tour of Ollershaw Lane Salt Works15.00 – Tour of – Lion Salt Works4pm Summary and Questions, tea and coffee