Welcome to the Trimontium Heritage Centre
The Story of the Roman Capital of South Scotland
Trimontium was the name of the Three Hills Place - in the lee of the Eildon Hills one mile from the town of Melrose and beside the village of Newstead in the Scottish Borders where in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD there grew up an enormous Romano-native complex - but which lasted just about 100 years. The Centre is in Melrose. The story is coming up!
The Museum displays are on the ground floor and there is wheelchair access throughout. We opened and had good business during the schools' February holiday week. The new season started on Monday 29 March, 2010.
The Museum is open every day (£2 adults, £1.50 concessions or £5 family).
There are guided Walk to the site each Thursday at the moment (with its wonderful views, and tea included - £3 adults, £2.50 concessions, children free, dogs welcome, 1.30pm-5.15pm).
School groups come throughout the year, keen to enjoy the Route March followed by the Museum Tour (£2 per pupil, adults free).
[In July and August we guide the site Walk on Tuesday afternoons as well as Thursday afternoons. We tell ourselves that it keeps us fit.]
We are now an Accredited Museum and have 'iconic objects' on loan from the National Museums in Edinburgh from James Curle's first excavation at Newstead (1905 to 1910) - a centenary which we have been busy celebrating. His big report came out in 1911 and we hope to see published in 2011 a book, under the aegis of the National Museums, indicating the work of the last one hundred years and the prospects for the future.
From Spring 2010 all the regular seasonal features have been falling into place - the six lectures, the summer outing, the weekly Walks.
Our Spring Celebrity Lectures were held in Melrose Corn Exchange on Thursdays 8, 22 and 29 April. This time it was a literary safari, with three novelists - Allan Massie, Doug Jackson and David Wishart - under the general title of 'Writing Romans: the rites; the wrongs'. The speakers bear no responsibility for the weakness of our wordplay. We are very grateful that they were willing to come and speak to us and we do our best to make them and our audiences most welcome.
If you would like to know what we got up to last year you can catch up with the highlights or have a look at our news items from those dates.
Other forthcoming events can be found on our News page, as soon as details are available.