The Antonine Wall Management Plan 2013-18 - Glasgow City Council

chapter nine
9.18 The Antonine Wall has not yet achieved
its potential in the areas of sustainable
economic development, education, research
or ecosystems management. To achieve
growth in these areas, investment in physical
improvements such as signage, paths,
interpretive materials and educational resources
will be important.
Question two
Have we fully summarised the projects
delivered, and lessons learned from the first
Management Plan, or are there projects/
lessons we have missed?
9.19 Active co-ordination is vital to ensure that there
is consistency across the WHS, that appropriate
contacts and relationships are maintained, not
only locally and nationally, but internationally,
and that delivery of key aims and objectives is
monitored.
Promoting the WHS
9.20 Greater engagement with, and more effective
communication between, all relevant
stakeholders is important.
9.21 Wider public understanding of the importance
and values of the Antonine Wall WHS remains
limited; public surveys show an awareness of
where and what the Antonine Wall is but not
why it is important to preserve and present it.
9.22 Multiple ownership of sections of the Wall,
plus the fact that it is invisible (surviving below
ground) for significant sections, offer particular
challenges to ensuring a coherent approach to
promoting access to, and understanding of, the
monument as a whole.
9.22 The Antonine Wall WHS needs to be
appreciated both as a linear entity, linking
Scotland to its international Partners, and also
as a set of individual places and artefacts that
are valuable in their own right.
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