Historical GIS and Digital Mapping
Our interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, historians, and archivists are generating interactive maps that plot data from written medieval sources to visualize geographical patterns and spatial trends that emerge from anecdotal archival data. We are using ArcGIS and Google Earth Pro to prepare a series of images, videos, and interactive maps.
The maps presented here demonstrate the value that overlapping historical records with geographical data has in ensuring that historical events are correctly interpreted.
Mapping Environment: Reconstructing Medieval Water Management
Historic Coastline and Flood Areas
This map brings together Environment Flood Alert data and instances of historical flooding to reveal the ancient coastline of the Pevensey levels as they existed before extensive medieval land reclamation efforts.
Records of flooding from the fourteenth century, and a late fourteenth century sewer inquest are included to add context to this fragile coastal system.
Click on the centre bar to move it back and forth and see the contrast in coastline.
People
Steven Bednarski, Project Director and Primary Investigator
Zack MacDonald, Co-Investigator
Andrew Moore, Research Fellow
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