Volunteering Opportunities with Newcastle University

About

Newcastle University have recently been successful in securing the first stage of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a wall- wide partnership project looking at 18 locations along Hadrian’s Wall which are currently on Historic England’s ‘Heritage at Risk Register’. Some preliminary investigation during the Hadrian’s Wall Community Champions project last year found that very often the HAR sites were on the list simply because they needed to be more fully understood and that’s exactly what this project aims to do. By working alongside communities adjacent to these sites and using a wide range of archaeological techniques, the project aims to provide opportunities for hundreds of volunteers and local communities to get involved and better understand and manage the condition of the World Heritage Sites (WHS). The project will also explore further where the stones have gone from the Wall through physically mapping the dispersal and undertaking research. The project will cover sites across the whole of the 150 mile WHS from Newcastle to Ravenglass.