Five years of exciting exploration is to begin at a buried Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland which is threatened by climate change.
The Vindolanda Charitable Trust has been awarded a £1.625m grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund towards the £2.5m project at Magna fort. The 52-acre site is bigger than the nearby Vindolanda fort, which produces a stream of outstanding finds in excavations each year.
“This funding is brilliant news and we are overjoyed,” said Dr Andrew Birley, Vindolanda Trust chief executive and director of excavations. “The fort of Magna, unlike nearby Vindolanda, has never been subjected to a sustained research excavation but recent geoarchaeological survey work has proved beyond doubt that Magna has some of, if not the richest, environmental deposits thus far identified from the world heritage site.”
