“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

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.

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

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.

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:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northwest-industrial-archaeology-conference-2017-tickets-36688714934?ref=estw

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

Bid to AHRC in Partnership with Salford University

Our next grant application should be submitted by the end of this month.
It is to the Arts and Humanities Research Council and aims to describe all different process of salt making from 1500, create a 'trusted sources' archive and reconstruct all the process and major sites using 3d graphics using the University's THINKlab.

There is a growing need for this approach as more and more publications carry on repeating outdated publications and ones that are just WRONG -

• Agricola's illustration do not show salt making in the Saxon period! They show illustrations of salt making described by someone from Saxony, Germany.
• A publication of 2006 quotes a reference of a publication dated 1920 attributing the discover of rock salt in 1670 as having been made in Droitwich, when it should have been in Northwich!
• A celebrity chef described how white salt was made in Cheshire from rock salt by taking the liquid out of the rock. A bit of a difference to the operation of evaporating brine made under ground by rainwater soaking through the ground and dissolving rock salt.
• The historic use of rock salt to strengthen sea water in the eighteenth century was not an 'adulteration of sea water' it was a realistic opportunity to make white salt using less fuel.
• Salt has not been 'mined' in Cheshire from the Roman period. It was made from extracting brine from natural brine springs that were enhanced by digging wells.
• Is a 'leaden' salt pan made of lead, or is it just heavy?
• A 'salt ship' found in Nantwich was used to store brine in, and is not a log boat!

Our work is desperately needed. Please leave comments here in support of the application.
Thank you.

HLF Bid Failed

Sadly our bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund was unsuccessful.

We have requested a better feed back than the refusal letter, as it seemed that our bid did not satisfy any of the criteria required for the particular type of grant award we were requesting.
It seems that what we want to wont meet the criteria for Your Heritage, Resilient Heritage or Sharing Knowledge - doesn't pay for translations and that digital publications are not a high priority.

We have as yet not been given feedback that the case officer ever downloaded and read the digital reports we posted in a shared dropbox folder, or that any of the committee ever had the opportunity to read it either.

We thought that the digital formats (i-book, epub, pdf and html5) explained well how the approach we proposed was cutting edge and inline with how information exchange and organisations would use digital technology in the future. It was also able to show how the guidance provided by the HLF for the use of digital technology in Heritage Lottery projects was outdated - having been written in 2012. Things have moved on a lot since then in the digital world!