A series of papers have been written by members of the Dorset Coast Forum team on a range of archaeological and historical topics, including;

The Dorset Maritime Archaeological Record
Dorset and Trafalgar, (research carried out for the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005)
The Abbotsbury Beaver
Intertidal Structures in the Fleet
The Fleet Wadeway
The Purbeck Cannon
Stone Anchors
The Studland Beach Wreck
The West Bay Elephant

You can find the papers below or by following the links.

• Dorset and Trafalgar

  There are a surprisingly large number of links between the county of Dorset and the Battle of Trafalgar, from the men of the county who fought, the effect it had on those left behind, and the way it features in the counties literature and later history.

• The Dorset Maritime Archaeological Record

  A maritime equivalent of the terrestrial Sites and Monuments Record. The Maritime Record includes all recorded traces of human activity below high water mark. It can be used to inform the planning process and identify areas of archaeological potential.

• The story of Radar and the Dorset Coast

  The Purbeck coast played a remarkably central role in the development of radar at the beginning of the Second World War. Here is the story of how this part of our coast became written into the annals of radar history.

• WreckMap Britain 2006

  WreckMap Britain is a project organised by the Nautical Archaeological Society, which aims to get divers to collect information on wrecks they dive on during 2006