Marine Archaeology
The Dunwich 2008 project funded by English Heritage and the Esmee Fairbarn Foundation was intended to collate all reliable historic mapped data on the same coordinate system and combine this with aerial photography and an underwater survey. Despite problems of very poor visibility and strong currents, maps were produced by Prof. David Sear of Southampton University, marine archaeologist Stuart Bacon and the Geodata Institute. They are displayed in Dunwich Museum which is accredited by the Museum Archives Libraries Council and show the Dunwich coastline as of 2000, 1826, 1587 and 1300 overlaid with 2006 aerial photography. Details of Dunwich's 800 year battle to protect against coastal erosion are also displayed in the museum and it is hoped more work will be done in future. A database of references to Dunwich "designed to aid academic researchers, family historians and students" is available online.
In June 2011, the Anglo-Saxon and medieval archaeology of Dunwich was the subject of a Channel 4 Time Team investigation.
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