Shoreline Detectives: Explore this 1700s shipwreck in East Sussex 

I have lived in Rye since 1980 and my mother born in 1902 came from Iden her father , my grandfather, was the lock keeper where the Rother meets the Military canal. This film informed a lot about the history. Thank you for posting.

As a missive Time Team fan… I am here for the history aspect. Looking forward to watching more episodes. The shaft is just amazing… and the ship such a treasure. But must say that Charlotte is rather lovely - and without a wedding band. If I was in the UK I would take her out for a coffee.

Thoroughly enjoyable. It was a great episode, well presented and thought out. Everyone on screen was knowledgeable and likeable. Well done to all involved. I'm looking forward to seeing more! Cheers.

I totally loved this thank you and stumbled the process it by accident…. I grew up just over the railway line from the Amsterdam ship wreck and all the other places mentioned were part of my childhood and early adult life before I moved away….. so totally and thoroughly interesting to learn these things that you shared. I was there on the beach the day after diggers came across the Amsterdam back in the 80s…. if I remember correctly, the contractors were digging to extend a sewer pipe when they came across the wreck of the ship….. Thank you for such an excellent program

Wonderful documentary !

As far as the ancient forest, where I live on the west coast of Florida, there are tree stumps in the gulf of Mexico, that I know of, in 20-25 feet of water off shore. The continental shelf here in what we call the big bend area of Florida's gulf coast is approximately 200 miles from the coast, and is very flat. Flat as in it is very shallow for quite a distance from shore. I've seen many tree stumps offshore in 20-30 foot of water while spear fishing.

Smeaton's idea of using the power of water flow to clear silt from a harbour was used successfully at Ramsgate harbour where they built an inner harbour after they found the original harbour was silting up. The inner harbour penned in the water at high tide and was released at low tide into the outer harbour, clearing the sand and silt.

Wonderful presentation. I was arrested but had charges dismissed in Canterbury 1600's. Then out of Salem 1700's. It is amazing what is hidden in plain sight. Once one starts looking.

That was a great programme. There are so many aspects of what is all around us that often becomes harder to see or understand. I live where there were many Napoleonic tunnels and forts but it has proven almost impossible to confirm the existence of some of them despite there being oddities that are visible. Perhaps its deliberate.

my dad and his brothers and friends used to go and play on this ship it was more intact then had a deck and cabin where they played pirates..

This was great. Thank you.

Get rid of the annoying music and I might be able to hear you speaking

I also think we need to find out who decided to build cliffs out of chalk, I bet it was some Labour council's idea.

Brilliant programme. Thanks so much.

Fascinating study. Thank you.

I stood on the edge of the cliffs and wondered how people would’ve gotten down to the beach. The shafts give a probable answer. Tunnel down, hit the granite, tunnel out.

Interesting programme, but your sound engineer/mixer/editor needs to find a new profession

I would like to ask the presenters for this programme why they didn’t consult people who live on the Sussex coast who know about the sea? I would also like to tell them that the Amsterdam wreck was first revealed in the late 1960’s and not, as they claim, in the ‘80’s It was first noticed by the people installing an offshore pipe (if I remember correctly it was a company called William Press)A group of us went down on a low tide and were excited to find odd relics from the ship (the wine that was retrieved was undrinkable!!) The wreck can only be seen at very low tides. To say that the Amsterdam sank into the sand is just not factual ……….over time the sand has built up around the ship. There’s a difference. Also there has not always been sinking sand by the wreck. There wasn’t in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s……….the constant movement of the sea causes the shoreline to change. This is constant and therefore the shift in sand and shingle constantly changes. It will be refreshing when these “experts” realise that they cannot rule the sea!! There have been many efforts over the ages to rule the sea - none are successful, nor will they ever be. Silly comments such as saying that the sea level rising and has covered forest etc., is immediately argued against by saying that Rye was once on the coast!! The sea does its own thing. I don’t see the point in these programmes put together by experts”. Who pays them for presenting less than accurate information? Save me from academics!!!

I agree music really disrupts voices in places but interesting thanks

Enjoyed, thanks

Imagine what will be said of today's engineering fiasco's. HS2 anyone. This harbour will look like a raging success in comparison.

this is excellent. as someone whos interested in all things both nautical and historical you might say it floated my boat. do you see what i did there? lol. thanks to all the team. cant wait for more

Yes I agree why do you need music when someone is talking 😊

Please take care when going under cliffs that are actively eroding. And chalk is so soft! I don't want to hear in the news that four intrepid archeologists perished or were hurt while investigating shoreline archeology along the south coast of England. I am a geologist, and one day, my assistant and I were taking samples at the base of a cliff that had a slight overhang in Oklahoma. We quit when dusk came and planned to continue the next morning. When we arrived, the sampling site was buried under a cliff fail! We were sooooo lucky! Best of luck to all of you. LOL I thought the man in the green jacket was going to say about the 250 year old wreck south of Hastings that "if you dig down about a meter, you will find organic material...seeds, pollen, fingers..."

At Normans Bay there are a series of square/rectangular shapes in the shingle beach, outlined in wooden spindles, which sit between the high and low water lines. I have always wondered what these could be.

I found the organization of the presentation very confusing. An expensive program with very little archeological value.

Just like the country fading away

Those "wreckers" came from Sussex and Kent.

Did Smeeton build the harbour so he could build the Beachhead Head lighthouse

Why is Charlotte's voice-over sooo quiet, compared to the recorded speech on the filmed portions? One can hardly hear what she's saying. It's so frustrating having to either turn up the volume or turn on the captions, then not be able to see the whole picture in detail. Poor post production editing.

Is it an old dinghy used by immigrants to cross the channel?

What would the Chinese do? Master builders? The resources to reclaim it are there….think outside the box maybe? Create a ‘competition’ and/ or crowd source the solution needed?

Why are all having safery jackets on???

I’m sorry but I don’t agree with that statement that people would willingly allow others to carve up their buildings like that. Since sailors were ship wrecked off the coast, they probably turned the church into temp housing and was filled to the brim with sailors. I’d like to imagine someone had their bed right next to the column and spent an insomniac night withering away the ship graffiti.

Please take that awful un requested music off of the video, so that I can hear what is being said, otherwise what's the point of having the video at all.

1:50 fart in a jar

Horrible editing going back and forth through the stories forcing the viewers to keep watching… I’ve got a headache

Dreadful, overbearing, raucous music spoilt this documentary 😢

I asked these Shoreline so-called-"detectives" to find out who nicked my phone last August and they said it's not their job. So much for these so-called-"detectives".

THey should just call this "things I found on the beach" because there is zero archaeology going on nor is there anything of any scientific interest at all.What's the point of this TV series? Seems like the cheapest possible way to fill schedule time with some tourism fluff. Time Team it is not.

stick to things you know something about. The sea level is not rising

Why are all these archeology programmes always presented by women? Wokeness gone mad! Bring back the men

350 people, on that small ship. wow

good grief. liberal educated women and kids.. great archeology..