 well good morning folksyeah as I said unfortunately to raise my colleague isn't able to make a class loader this weekend so it's just going to be me discussing the project that we work on and really how it's been driven entirely by the community that we've been working with and I work on the citizen project which is a coastal and intertidal zone archeological network and it's a project a three year project that's now just coming to an end or its first phase is coming to an end ac mae'r projekty yn ymddi'r hunain iawn i'r gweithio a'r amser cwstl argynodau hynny ymddi'r gweithio a'r gweithio'r gweithio. Mae'n amser ymddi'r projekty. Yn gweithio'r three tyngau ar y cwrdd, ond mae'r gweithio'r gweithio ar gyfer yma, a mae'n mynd i'n ffordd o'r ffordd o'n cymhau newydd sy'n fwyaf ac mae'n bywyd bod yn fwyaf ymddorol ar gyfer fynd i'w ymddi. Y cwrdd ar gyfer fynd i'r cymhwytaeth, Felly, mae'n meddwl yma, mae'n meddwl yma, ac mae'n meddwl yma, at yw'r ysgol, yma, ymwyaf'i'r ysgol, yma o'r eto, ymwneud sy'n meddwl yma, sut yw'r ysgol i fynd wedi'r cyffredinol, sut yw'r wych i'r gweithio, sut yw'r ysgol i fynd ymwneud. Y pwyllgor yn rhywbeth yn y ddechrau ffordd, ond mae'n meddwl, drwy'r ysgol yw'r ysgol sy'n meddwl yma, yw'r ysgol yw'r ysgol, Because it really all began from just a couple of volunteers who called us up said, They found something on the beach and we went to meet them and that's Jim Marking Jade on the left, and from that initial meeting, we've actually managed to get in touch with a huge map of the local community. It's an island has about 6000 people, 6000 residents, and of those 6000, we've managed to engage, speak to interact with and teach and train six hundred and twenty eight of them over the course of it's really been about 18 months that this has worked and the way that we've done that is really to let them tell each other it's been word of mouth it's been how they've used the existing community links to try and build on what we do and we we run several sort of events on the island so we take people down to the foreshore and we get them and we show them how to record archaeology using a smartphone app and then they update various bits of information about the archaeology that they find on and around the island and we've also been running a oral histories project memory mercy memories project sorry which has been using the local newspaper local media to try and get people to engage with the project by suggesting archaeology that they might know around their island and it's been very successful in terms of the amount of archaeology which actually discovered and there's no way that we would have found everything that we have done unless we've spoken to this number of people and it's kind of added over about 75 80 new archaeological features to a map that otherwise had none on it before and that's purely down to people local knowledge going down to the foreshore with us and telling us where it is and over the kind of 18 month period you can kind of see the general progression in interest I suppose and participation in the project and we've gone from just quite a small number of people initially right up to just over 180 people towards the end when we've had various experts come in and give talks on the island about the archaeology and what people might find and this is kind of a typical makeup of one of our volunteer groups when we go out looking on the foreshore and you can see behind them expansive mercy which is a estuary it's a mountain estuary so it's a large expanse of mudflats which has a lot of archaeology that's now roding out of it and this is one of the teams that we sort of go down with and train and walk around on the foreshore with and the people on the left hand or the right hand side of the image the reason they're looking away as one of the volunteers is just so they're just far more important than they're girls but they're just diving in and having a mouthful of that but you can see it's quite a mix of people that we have we get quite a few young people we've had people children as young as nine come down with us on the foreshore i've been thrilled to have an opportunity to investigate what's on the beach but we also have as you can expect a larger number of older people as well but it's really an opportunity for them to go out and without excavating just by going for a walk they can look into the past and see what's out on the beach and yes there's another one of our groups again you can see you and the young gentleman just down at the right but it's always beautifully sunny when we go to Mersey Island. What it has managed to achieve and one of the really nice quotes which is the one up on the screen here is that the project has managed to bring the community together in ways that it hadn't necessarily before it's a lot of people two events to come and listen to speakers and actually to track the project that normally wouldn't be part of the community as it stands they don't necessarily come and join in different events on the island but this has been a new opportunity for them to do so and then the subject matter has actually been quite interesting to all of the people on the island because a lot of these people have grown up on the island and they've seen the archaeology it's on the beach and they've always kind of wondered oh what is this how can we how can we get involved we've managed to provide an opportunity for them to engage with that sorry that's short and sweet but yeah that's a project