Hadrian's Wall secures Lottery funding
Hadrian's Wall and the National Maritime Museum have secured £9m funding, the Heritage Lottery Fund announced today.
The funding will be used to transform the sites and improve the facilities for visitors.
Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland, will use £4m to build an education centre and new galleries for displaying ancient artefacts.
The Vindolanda Trust, the archaeological body in charge of the project, will also release a collection of items which have never been displayed before.
Historian Dan Snow said: "Vindolanda is one of the most important Roman sites in the world.
"Discoveries being made there are scrutinised as avidly in Syria and Libya as they are in Northern England. Yet the first thing the visitor notices there are the vast unexcavated spaces in and around the fort.
"What further treasures will the ground yield? We can be absolutely certain that the story of Vindolanda is not nearly complete."
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The funding will be used to transform the sites and improve the facilities for visitors.
Hadrian's Wall, in Northumberland, will use £4m to build an education centre and new galleries for displaying ancient artefacts.
The Vindolanda Trust, the archaeological body in charge of the project, will also release a collection of items which have never been displayed before.
Historian Dan Snow said: "Vindolanda is one of the most important Roman sites in the world.
"Discoveries being made there are scrutinised as avidly in Syria and Libya as they are in Northern England. Yet the first thing the visitor notices there are the vast unexcavated spaces in and around the fort.
"What further treasures will the ground yield? We can be absolutely certain that the story of Vindolanda is not nearly complete."