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Safeguarding the Heritage of Ship Canals

WCC Scotland
September 22, 2016

Safeguarding the Heritage of Ship Canals

Mark Horton Mark Hortonis a passionate advocate of all things maritime. He has worked as an archaeologist around the world with projects in Panama, the Caribbean, East Africa, USA and Egypt as well as in the UK. His research interest centres around globalisation and the origins of world trade – from prehistory to the Industrial era. He has presented BBC Coast as the ‘resident’ archaeologist and historian since its beginning in 200, and this has taken him to several ship canals around the UK and continent. He is Vice President of Cotswolds Canals, and takes an close interest in the ongoing restoration of the Stroudwater Navigation in Gloucestershire.

WCC Scotland

September 22, 2016
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  1. DEFINITION ‘A ship canal is a navigable waterway with access

    to the sea, with unrestricted headroom, enabling access by sea-going vessels’
  2. • Canals are not just waterways, but corridors of heritage

    assets, that may extend a significant distance • Safeguarding canal heritage must include the vessels that sailed on them, with the skills base needed to maintain them over the long term • We need to understand the role canals played and continue to play in the forces of globalisation, and their potential contribution to climate and environmental change
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