Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project

The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) examined the landscape heritage of the Hadrian’s Wall corridor and World Heritage Site (WHS) by building a community-based network, guided and trained by professionals. The project aimed to foster local engagement and social investment in heritage landscapes. WallCAP was funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and was hosted by Newcastle University. The project ran from January 2019 to the end of September 2022.

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The WallCAP project had two major strands:

Heritage At Risk (HAR) – investigating, understanding, and (where possible) conserving sites where current or potential threats have been identified; most of these sites are on the official Historic England Heritage At Risk register;
Stone Sourcing & Dispersal (SSD) – identifying and locating the source quarries for the building of Hadrian’s Wall, and the dispersal and recycling of building fabric from Hadrian’s Wall into later buildings and structures.

Public involvement was essential to the success of the project and it was developed and delivered in consultation with project volunteers and communities along the Wall to ensure that activities were appropriate, well supported and understood. WallCAP also sought to promote a long-term legacy to the conservation of the WHS by building a framework to support volunteers and community groups and help to build and reinforce stronger links to heritage sites/attractions and relevant organisations.