Saltcote No.13

 Saltcote No.13 - December 2025

Can be downloaded with other back copies from Ecosal Google Drive -

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kDLqnU8aSxTPnEftzy9_Uxq2UDoNZEnF?usp=drive_link

Festschrift for Prof Mark Brisbane

 Festschrift for Mark Brisbane of Bournemouth University,

Producers, Traders and Consumers in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe-Post-Excavation and Museum Studies Presented to Professor Mark Brisbane

Edited by Mark Maltby, Deborah Hodges

216pages, 19 chapters

Chapter 16 recognises Mark's leadership of the UK participation in the EU funded project Ecosal Atlantis. Written by Andrew Fielding, who was part of the UK team, it brings together information about the unique 'salt ships' of Nantwich, Cheshire.

archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803279237

Saltcote No.12

 Saltcote No.12 now uploaded to Ecosal-UK Google Drive

All back issues can be found at this link, together with an index for issues 1-10.

The Index will be updated asap to include all issues 1-12.

Articles for Saltcote 2024

 Please make contact if you wish to submit an article for inclusion in Saltcote No.12. 

On-line Talk - Salt Canals of Cheshire 14 August 2023

The Salt Canals of Cheshire: From Brine Pit to Salt House - online talk 

 Monday 14th August 7pm to 8pm - Free 

This online (Zoom) talk will be given by Andrew Fielding, co-director of not-for-profit organisation ECOSAL-UK. 

 Andrew will examine how brine was delivered from brine pit to salt houses and compare Nantwich with Northwich, Middlewich and other salt works, exploring salt heritage infrastructure rather than brine boiling. Being part of the Museum’s Summer of Science festival there will be some physics, process engineering, batch production and 3D modelling to describe these elements over time and place. 

 This is the link to take you to registering for the talk: 

You are invited to a Zoom meeting. 

When: Aug 14, 2023 07:00 PM London 

 Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO2srTMvE9RDHlbNLa5KjT4za6ca0bpT 

 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Alternatively people can book from our website: Events - Nantwich Museum 

 Please feel free to sharing. 

 Kind Regards, Kate Dobson, Museum Manager 

 Nantwich Museum is a small charity, dependent on donations, grants and fundraising. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated and will enable us to assist with local research. Nantwich Museum | Pillory Street | Nantwich | Cheshire| CW5 5BQ | tel: 01270 627104 | www.nantwichmuseum.org.uk | Nantwich Museum Trust Ltd Reg. Charity No. 509386

Index to Saltcote Nos1-10

 An index to the Ecosal-UK newsletter issues 1-10 has been uploaded to the Ecosal-UK Google Drive folder.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kDLqnU8aSxTPnEftzy9_Uxq2UDoNZEnF?usp=share_link

Cover image to be post here soon.

Saltcote No.10 December 2022

 Download Saltcote No.10 from the link below

Saltcote No.10

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dImNrZecBEV0_1g-kXalEMR4bAlz93fT/view?usp=share_link

Saltcote back issues No's 1-10 from Ecosal Folder

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 Happy Christmas 2022

The newsletter for 2022 is being prepared and will be circulated soon. 

Please look out for it and circulate to anyone you know who might have an interest in anything to do with salt heritage.

Webinar organised for the CIfA 13 Oct 2022

 Ecosal-UK has organised a webinar about salt making to be held on-line on the afternoon of 13th October 2022.

1. David Cranstone      

                  Sleeching mounds and panhouses: 

                  Coastal salt in the Northeast a ‘long Industrial Revolution’.

2. Tom Lane                   

                  The archaeology of salt making –                                                                                                                 locations of surface, buried and submerged sites in Lincolnshire.

   Break

3. Andrew Fielding       

                   Digital reconstructions of salt making sites and their processes.

4.                 Q&A and Discussion  

Innovation Festival | Chartered Institute for Archaeologists

Saltcote No.9 - December 2021

Saltcote No.9, December 2021 ready for distribution.

 

Happy Christmas 2021

 

SPMA Congress 28-30 May 2021

 Andrew has had a paper accepted for the 2021 Congress of the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology. The Congress will be delivered on-line this year due to the Covid restrictions.

The paper will describe the publication written by Dr William Brownrigg in 1771 about how to prevent the spread of contagious diseases and link his suggestions to the current Covid-19 pandemic.

In 1748 Dr Browbrigg wrote a paper about how to improve salt making.

Link https://pmac21.com/

 A Google map created by Andrew for Ecosal-UK showing 3d models of salt making sites, talks given about historic salt making and videos with a salt theme.

Google map showing 3d models of salt making sites being developed by Andrew Fielding.

Also showing 

videos recorded by Andrew Fielding showing work carried out whilst working on the Ecosal Atlantis Project and for Ecosal-UK. 

Salt talks and publications recorded or uploaded by Andrew Fielding, Tom Lane and David Cranstone.

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/

Download link to all back copies of Saltcote newsletter

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.