This book tells the story of the conservation of Hadrian's Wall,
from the construction of General Wade's Military Road in the
eighteenth century to the designation of the Wall as a World
Heritage Site in 1987. The first part of the book describes the
attempt to protect the Wall via private ownership in the form of
the Clayton estate and the imminent threat of destruction that
followed the break-up of that estate. The campaign that led to the
1931 Ancient Monuments Act - especially formulated to deal with the
threat to the Wall - is illuminated here, as is the subsequent
protection of the Wall by means of the Wall and Vallum Preservation
Scheme (prototypical of today's national parks). In the book's
second part, the post-war conservation work of Charles Anderson is
described and discussed - with the help of numerous photographs
that were taken at the time, with great foresight, by Anderson
himself. The book will be of interest not only to scholars of the
Wall, but also to anyone interested in the history of conservation.
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