A pledge of significant new archaeological work on Hadrian’s Wakk

The National Lottery has made a substantial grant towards the proposed five year long investigation of the hitherto unexcavated and substantial Magna fort on Hadrian’s Wall. The site is near to the important fort and civilian settlement at Vindolanda and the grant is being made to the Vindolanda Charitable Trust. One of the aims of the excavation is to investigate how changes in the environment are affecting archaeological sites along the line of Hadrian’s Wall, and, presumably, elsewhere.

The site is also close to the Roman Army Museum which is very interesting as an accompaniment to a visit to the Wall. I visited it once some thirty odd years ago.

The report about the proposed work at the site of Magna can be seen at Huge Roman fort to be excavated in lottery-backed project