Thursday, October 09, 2008

HADRIAN'S WALL has secured a large grant:
£4m centre to show off Hadrian’s Wall finds

(The Herald)

Hadrian's Wall and the National Maritime Museum in London have secured £9m funding, which will be used to transform the sites and improve the facilities for visitors.

Hadrian's Wall will use £4m to build an education centre and new galleries for displaying ancient artefacts in Northumberland.

The Vindolanda Trust, the archaeological body in charge of the project, will also release a collection of items which have never been displayed before.

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At the centre of the planned display at Vindolanda will be examples of ancient writing tablets described by experts as "Britain's Dead Sea Scrolls".

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For more on Hadrian, see here and keep following the links back. For more on Hadrian's Wall and on Vindolanda and the epigraphic discoveries there, see here.