Saltcote No.8 2020

 Saltcote No.8 December 2020

Link to read on-line coming here soon.

Link to download coming here soon.

Salt on the Solway Youtube recoding

 Introduction and two twenty minute talks introducing current knowledge about salt making on the shores of the Solway Firth, by Andrew Fielding and John Pickin.

Salt on the Solway Youtube recording https://youtu.be/ILZiMclUJ4c

El Alfoli newsletter of IPAISAL Issue 27 / 2020

 The latest issue of El Alfolí is out! Request your free copy at salinasdeinterio@gmail.com

Features an interview with Andrew Fielding of Ecosal-UK.

Salt on the Solway - Solway Coast AONB webinar 29 October 2020

 Looking forward to contributing to an upcoming webinar being organised by the Solway Coast AONB 

Coastal Conversation: Salt on the Solway  - 29th October, 2020.

Talks by Andrew Fielding and John Pickin.

https://www.solwayfirthpartnership.co.uk/join-the-salt-on-the-solway-webinar/

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Saltcote newsletters 1-6 can be downloaded from Google Drive
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Pipe revealed by storms at Crosscanonby Salt Works, 13 March 2020

Recent storms have redistributed sands and gravels along the Allonby Bay coastline.
This wooden pipe has been revealed in the inter-tidal area below Crosscanonby Salt Pan.
Possibly a pipe to carry sea water from the coastal edge to the saltworks. It is currently allowing fresh water to drain from below the saltworks.
It is some 12m south of a 'well' like structure that  is often revealed, and which was posted here in a blog on 19th December 2019.
A first lease of the salt works is dated 1634 with a subsequent lease to Francis Barwise dated 1649 including mention of  'sumps', which may be a reference to this pipe.

Autumn Conference of the Cumbria Industrial History Society, Sat 10th October 2020

The Industries of the Arnside Area

Autumn Conference of the CIHS

Includes a talk by Andrew Fielding about the salt making sites and processes of Arnside and the Morecombe Bay area.

More details to follow

Salt Conference - Brora, Scotland 5-6 Sept 2020

Advance notice of a salt conference being organised by The Scape Trust at Brora, Sutherland, Scotland.
To be held over the week end of 5-6th September.
Andrew Fielding and Tom Lane from Ecosal-UK have been booked to contribute.
Other speakers include a key note talk by Prof Chris Whatley of Dundee University.

More details to follow here.

Talk: A Review of Salt Making in Cumberland

Andrew Fielding will be talking at the next meeting of the West Cumbria Archaeology Society on Friday 14th February. 

A Review of Salt Making in Cumberland 

7.30 at Allhallows Centre, Fletchertown. 

Admission charge for non members

Old photograph from web of the salt works site at Crosscanonby.

After the insertion of protective gabions and while it was clear of vegetation

but before the construction of the cycle way

which led to the loss of the associated buildings inland of the road.