The AnTonine WAll - Falkirk Council
The AnTonine WAll - Falkirk Council
The AnTonine WAll - Falkirk Council
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to protect – and define – the Roman Empire, one of<br />
the greatest states ever to have existed. <strong>The</strong> Antonine<br />
Wall was the most northerly frontier of the Empire, the<br />
last of a series of planned frontiers built in the second<br />
century AD and, at the time, the most complex ever<br />
constructed by the Romans.<br />
2.2 content and purpose of the<br />
management plan<br />
In July 2008 the Antonine Wall achieved international<br />
recognition by being inscribed as part of the Frontiers<br />
of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site (FREWHS).<br />
World Heritage Sites are places of outstanding<br />
universal significance. <strong>The</strong> Frontiers of the Roman<br />
Empire World Heritage Site (FREWHS) is a serial<br />
transnational World Heritage Site (WHS). It currently<br />
comprises Hadrian’s Wall (inscribed in 1987), the<br />
German Limes (inscribed in 2005) and the Antonine<br />
Wall (inscribed in 2008). <strong>The</strong>se partners work<br />
internationally to protect and promote the FREWHS.<br />
In Scotland, a partnership of key local authorities and<br />
government agencies deliver strategic and operational<br />
functions specifically for the Antonine Wall.<br />
strategic environmental assessment: environmental report<br />
<strong>The</strong> key purpose of a Management Plan is to provide<br />
for the overall management of the WHS in a manner<br />
specific to its character and needs to ensure<br />
maintenance of its Outstanding Universal Value.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Plan’s aims and objectives are thus based on an<br />
analysis of the site’s significance and the issues which<br />
currently face it, ensuring that solutions are identified<br />
to site specific problems. A Management Plan is,<br />
therefore, a means by which a site can demonstrate<br />
to the United National Educational, Scientific and<br />
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that it has adequate<br />
management mechanisms in place to ensure the Site’s<br />
conservation for future generations.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first Management Plan for the Antonine Wall WHS<br />
covered the five-year period from nomination (2007-12).<br />
This draft five-year Management Plan for 2013-18<br />
draws on the work that has already been delivered<br />
and builds on the aspirations of the partners and other<br />
stakeholders. It summarises the actions delivered<br />
from the 2007-12 Management Plan, outlines a long<br />
term vision for the site, identifies key issues for the<br />
forthcoming Management Plan, and proposes aims and<br />
objectives to tackle these over the next five-year period.<br />
Table 1 sets out the key facts about the Plan including the area it covers and its purpose.<br />
Responsible Authority Historic Scotland (on behalf of the Antonine Wall Management Group)<br />
Title of PPS <strong>The</strong> Antonine Wall WHS: Management Plan 2013-18<br />
PPS subject Historic environment<br />
Period covered by the plan Five years<br />
What prompted the plan? <strong>The</strong> UK has obligations under the World Heritage Convention 1972 in relation to<br />
effective management of WHSs which require that every site has an appropriate<br />
management structure in place. It is UK policy that every World Heritage Site<br />
should have an up to date management plan.<br />
Frequency of updates Every 5 years<br />
Area covered by the plan <strong>The</strong> plan relates to the entire length of the Antonine Wall which spans five Local<br />
Authority areas.<br />
Purpose of plan A management plan is required by UNESCO to specify how the outstanding<br />
universal value of the World Heritage Site will be protected and managed for<br />
future generations. <strong>The</strong> Management Plan will provide a strategic framework for<br />
achieving the protection and management of the cultural and natural assets in<br />
the WHS and will identify specific aims & objectives for implementation of the<br />
framework within the WHS.<br />
Contact point for queries Patricia Weeks<br />
Antonine Wall World Heritage Site Co-ordinator<br />
Historic Scotland<br />
Longmore House<br />
Salisbury Place<br />
Edinburgh EH9 1SH<br />
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