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HWTMA Director in new BBC Television Show
HWTMA Director, Garry Momber, will feature in a new programme on BBC1 this week. The programme is about St Kilda and is called 'Britain's Lost World'. It will explore the current habitat and look at human occupation of the Islands from the earliest times. This includes potential occupation in submerged caves when sea levels were lower.
Britain's Lost World is on 9pm BBC1, on Thursday 26 for an hour and then the final episode is on Friday 27 for half an hour at 7.30pm. The final one will feature the underwater archaeology.
Young Archaeologists Dive In!
Eight lucky and brave 12 to 17 year olds spent last week exploring their sunken history as they dived into the cold Solent sea to explore ancient shipwrecks with maritime archaeologists from the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology (HWTMA).
As well as diving on shipwrecks including the ‘Pomone’, ’War Knight’ and ‘Joannis Millis’, the young pioneers also investigated the foreshore for WWII archaeology, and tried their hand at rowing a reproduction of an ancient coracle. With their new-found skills the group measured, drew, photographed and recorded the archaeology in exactly the same way as professional maritime archaeologists. This ‘Heritage Lottery’ funded project will be on show at the National Archaeology Week family event at Fort Cumberland on 12th and 13th July.
No other project of this kind has ever taken place before with such young archaeologists. HWTMA Education Officer, Alison Hamer says that she is “extremely proud of the children’s determination and is impressed with how the challenge brought out their best qualities”.
HWTMA hope to find funding to repeat this life-changing pilot project for more children. To find out more visit the website designed by the young people at, www.divein2008.co.uk.