Phase 2 of the 2013 season of the SAMPHIRE project is now complete. The team is now back in Edinburgh and looking forward to starting analysis of all the data that we have been given.

We would like to say a huge thank you to all the community members who have taken the time to talk to us. We have been invited into people’s homes, offices and boats and given a warm reception everywhere we went. With the help of Scotland’s west coast maritime community we have been able to collate a huge amount of new information on Scotland’s marine heritage. In the coming weeks and months we will be going through all the data and making sense of it and then picking locations to investigate and dive on during Phase 3.

As part of this we will be meeting up with and hopefully working with the people who first reported these selected sites. By the end of this year we will feed our work into the online national databases of archaeological sites and will also pass the enhanced information back to the communities who gave it to us in the first place.