Tales of the Frontier: Political Representations and Practices inspired by Hadrian's Wall. Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement

“边疆故事”项目（TotF）从2007年到2013年由AHRC资助，最初通过主要研究资助（作为景观与环境主题的一部分），随后通过研究奖学金（2011年）和文化参与项目（2013年）。TotF探索了哈德良长城（HW）的长期存在，这是英国最重要的古代纪念碑之一，也是罗马帝国世界遗产的一部分（包括欧洲各地的考古遗迹；Breeze和Jilek 2008；参考文献见支持案例）。HW还吸引了大量的游客到英格兰北部的边境地区，在“哈德良长城国家”的当地经济中发挥了重要作用。以前，长城在考古学和公众中被认为是一个特殊的罗马军事纪念碑——事实上，这种罗马军事身份是长城定义、保护、管理和解释的核心（西蒙兹和梅森，2009）。TotF的核心目标是探索和交流从C5到现在的纪念碑及其景观所产生的联系，解决各种各样的历史和当代价值，包括反映长城长期过去和现在意义的有形和无形方面。研究结果通过以下方式进行了交流：各种学术成果（例如Witcher et al. 2010; Hingley 2012），两篇流行文章（《英国考古学》和《当代考古学》），以及在过去4年中在英国许多博物馆和机构巡回展出的公共展览（Tolia Kelly 2010）。这个后续资助项目旨在进一步发展项目的重大社会和政策影响，通过创建最初提交赠款申请时无法预见的途径。项目团队包括来自杜伦大学的学者，主要的非学术合作伙伴是哈德良长城信托基金（HWT）。与传统观念相比，TotF制定的议程为HW传达了更丰富的历史和当代意义，传统观念认为HW是罗马军队的遗留物，建于公元120年代，在公元5世纪早期被废弃。这些内容涉及这座罗马纪念碑丰富的生平（来世），以及它从罗马时代到现在作为一个活生生的重要景观的角色（参见Hingley 2012）。该项目将邀请学者、遗产管理者和公共利益相关者合作开发一套10条小径，这些小径可以通过汽车和公共交通工具到达，并处理当前数字媒体和出版物中没有充分解决的长城漫长生命的主题，包括关于长城古物历史的想法及其作为神话景观的作用。其目的是发展一种变革的视角，为世界遗产地的解释政策提供信息（参见Mills 2013）。这将反映并最大限度地发挥最初的TotF项目的成果，通过持续的合作，吸引更多的决策者和公众参与。它的目的是引导当地人、数字社区和游客到各种各样的地方和想法，这些地方和想法没有包括在现有的长城资料中，这可能会增加游客数量和更可持续的管理制度。它还将开发与长城沿线历史和现代景观相关的材料，为目前关于长城管理计划第四次迭代的讨论做出贡献，该计划正在讨论为长城的自然、文化和当前景观建立研究框架的想法。

The 'Tales of the Frontier' project (TotF) was funded by AHRC from 2007 to 2013, initially through a major research grant (as part of the Landscapes and Environment theme) and subsequently through a Research Fellowship (in 2011) and Cultural Engagement project (2013). TotF explored the long-life of Hadrian's Wall (HW), which is one of the UK's most significant ancient monuments and also forms a part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site (which includes archaeological remains across Europe; Breeze and Jilek 2008; for references see Case for Support). HW also draws large numbers of visitors into the borderlands of northern England, playing a significant role in the local economy of "Hadrian's Wall Country". The Wall has previously been communicated within archaeology and to the public as a specifically Roman military monument-indeed, this Roman military identity is at the heart of the Wall's definition, protection, management and interpretation (Symonds and Mason 2009). The core objective of TotF was to explore and communicate associations derived from the afterlife of the monument and its landscape, from the C5 to the present day, addressing a rich variety of historical and contemporary values, including tangible and intangible aspects that reflect the Wall's long-term past and its significance in the present. The results have been communicated through: a variety of academic outputs (e.g. Witcher et al. 2010; Hingley 2012), 2 popular articles (in British Archaeology and Current Archaeology) and a public exhibition that has toured a number of museums and institutions in the UK during the past 4 years (Tolia Kelly 2010). This Follow-on Funding project is designed to further develop the significant social and policy impacts of the project by creating pathways that could not have been foreseen when the initial grant application was submitted. The project team includes academics from Durham University and the main non-academic partner is Hadrian's Wall Trust (HWT). The agenda developed by TotF communicated a richer range of historical and contemporary meanings for HW than those conveyed by the traditional idea of it as the relict work of the Roman military, built in the AD 120s and disused by the early C5. These deal with the human aspects of the rich biography (afterlife) of this Roman monument and its role as a living and vital landscape, from Roman times to the present (cf. Hingley 2012). This project will engage academics, heritage managers, and public stakeholders to collaboratively develop a set of 10 Trails that can be accessed by car and by public transport and that deal with themes in the long life of the Wall that are not sufficiently addressed in current digital media and publications, including ideas about the antiquarian history of the Wall and its role as a mythical landscape. This aims to develop a transformative perspective that informs the developing interpretational policies for the World Heritage Site (cf. Mills 2013). This will reflect and maximize the results of the initial TotF project through sustained collaboration that engages a wider audience of policy makers and members of the public. It aims to direct local people, digital communities and visitors to a variety of places and ideas that are not included in current materials that give accounts of the Wall, potentially leading to increased visitor numbers and a more sustainable management regime. It will also develop materials relevant to the historical and modern landscape along the Wall, contributing to current discussions about the 4th iteration of the HW Management Plan that are addressing the idea of a Research Framework for the natural, cultural and current landscapes of HW.