Alderney Soc Bull 31

Brief account of events, activities and projects undertaken during the year on and around Alderney.

Three short articles on the investigation and preservation of the Elizabethan wreck located off the coast of Alderney, comprising

a look at current and future work on the wreck site

Text of an illustrated talk given to the Alderney Society in September 1996, in which the author offers a general picture of the political and military conflict between England and France at the time of the sinking of the Elizabethan ship off Alderney.

The paper presents a progress report on studies of the landscape history of Alderney, in which brief references to raised beaches and associated phenomena on the island are reviewed in their historical context. More recent surveys demonstrated a series of raised beaches within the context of the Channel Islands. The paper includes recently discovered sections which have been surveyed laterally and altitudinally; at least two distinct former sea-levels have been identified.