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

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looking forward<br />

Objective 3.2<br />

To promote UNESCO WHS values<br />

Objective 3.3<br />

To strengthen international education links between<br />

FREWHS Partners<br />

Objective 3.4<br />

To encourage CPD opportunities for education staff, to<br />

build capacity in teaching about the <strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong> WHS<br />

Fortlet at Kinneil, in Bo’ness, where community events take<br />

place annually<br />

Question seven<br />

Have we identified the key objectives to<br />

realise the educational potential of the<br />

<strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong> WHS?<br />

aim four<br />

Meeting a Roman soldier<br />

Issue<br />

Strengthening use of the <strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong> WHS<br />

in informal education and outreach<br />

As well as being a focus for formal educational use,<br />

the <strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong> is also regularly used for informal<br />

education work, by communities and for outreach<br />

events. In 2012, a World Heritage Day event was held at<br />

Croy, which linked communities from all five Scottish<br />

World Heritage Sites, and an annual community led<br />

event, Big Roman Week, runs in the Falkirk <strong>Council</strong><br />

area. Healthy lifestyle walking groups in the <strong>Glasgow</strong>,<br />

North Lanarkshire, East Dunbartonshire, and Falkirk<br />

<strong>Council</strong> areas use sections of the wall for weekly events,<br />

while community development at Lambhill Stables<br />

in <strong>Glasgow</strong> has seen the <strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong> included in a<br />

walking map for the area, and in planning for future<br />

interpretive and outreach work. Ranger services,<br />

based in various organisations along the <strong>Antonine</strong><br />

<strong>Wall</strong>, regularly lead events related to both natural and<br />

cultural heritage, using the WHS as a venue.<br />

Objective 3.5<br />

To support local communities to use the <strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong><br />

WHS in informal education and outreach initiatives<br />

Objective 3.6<br />

To build a programme of events and activities for<br />

families, special interest groups and the general public<br />

Build strong structural and organisational<br />

partnerships with local, national and<br />

international organisations, strengthen<br />

engagement with local communities, and<br />

contribute to sustainable economic growth<br />

Issue<br />

International partnerships<br />

As well as being a monument of international<br />

importance in its own right, the <strong>Antonine</strong> <strong>Wall</strong> is<br />

also part of the wider Roman frontier, a monument<br />

stretching over 5000km from the Atlantic Ocean to<br />

the Black Sea, from Egypt to the Atlantic coast of Africa.<br />

Although at present there are only three international<br />

partners in the FREWHS, this could increase in future<br />

years as other countries who care for sections of<br />

this frontier seek to join. <strong>The</strong> international Partners<br />

to the FREWHS are interdependent on one another<br />

for the long-term existence of the World Heritage<br />

Site; if one country has a part of its section placed on<br />

the endangered list, then the whole FREWHS is also<br />

included. A high degree of cooperation is therefore<br />

required between the international Partners to ensure<br />

best practice approaches to the conservation and<br />

management of the FREWHS are in place and that<br />

information and skills are shared between one another.<br />

For other countries who may be interested in joining<br />

the FREWHS, academic and professional links with<br />

existing international Partners are maintained through<br />

the Bratislava group, giving the opportunity to discuss<br />

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