ASE's Ellen Heppell on 'Britain at Low Tide'

The third episode in the fantastic Channel 4 series 'Britain at Low Tide' airs this Saturday the 3rd of December at 8pm and focuses on the South-East of England, predominantly the low-lying coastlines of Essex and Kent.

The show follows the team from the community archaeology programme CITiZAN in looking at coastal archaeological sites which have been exposed over time due to climate change, rising sea levels, extreme storm events and increased tidal scour. The CITiZAN team aim to monitor and survey these sites as well as raising awareness of our threatened coastline.

In the third episode, the presenters join Ellen Heppell from Archaeology South-East's Historic Environment team at Essex Records Office to discuss a vanishing earthwork fort built in the 1540s by Henry VIII and the historical maps which illustrate its fate.