WallCAP Project Manager Rob provides an overview of the excavation work that will be taking place on Hadrian's Wall at Walltown Crags, Northumberland.

Video transcript:
"Hi guys, this is Rob from WallCAP! We are excavating at Walltown Crags this week, sadly without volunteers because of Covid restrictions. These excavations are work that we need to get on with. One of the key reasons for being here, as you can see behind me, is a small ditch behind the Wall, behind the curtain here at Walltown Crags. This is from an excavations done about 100 year ago, a bit more than 100 years ago in 1902-1903. Those excavations were not recorded in the way that they would be today, so we don’t necessarily know exactly what they found other than that they revealed the Wall. So we have 2 principle things that we are doing here. One is to help stabilise the curtain here. If you look along the top of the curtain, you’ll see that there is all sorts of loose core stones that are one major weather event away from dropping down the cliff, so we need to consolidate those bits of stone to protect the Wall. The other thing is to have a much better understanding of the antiquarian excavations and see exactly what they found. So to do that, we’re doing to dig two trenches. One trench further down that way [along the antiquarian ditch] in which we will re-excavate the Edwardian trench. Another trench, which is just behind camera, where we will excavate a fresh bit of the curtain and see what it looked like when the Edwardian diggers first encountered it. So that’s our chance to get some soil samples and have a fresh look at the curtain here on the Crags."

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