Museum Opening Soon

From now on the Museum can be opened on request (tel 01896 822651) if we can make it, up to 28 March 2010. The new season starts on Monday 29 March, 2010.

A look back to last year's highlights

In 2009 the 45-strong Summer outing to the Great North Museum in Newcastle to see the Roman section in the morning, followed by a visit to Segedunum (Wallsend) in the afternoon took place on the lovely summery Saturday 25 July with Trust members and friends.

The Trimontium Museum opens on Wednesday 1 April. It will be open for the season from 10:30 to 16:30, seven days a week until the end of October. Dr Fraser Hunter will unveil' the Trimontium artefacts which are this season's 'iconic' objects from the Curle excavation of 1905-10. Thereafter you can visit the site of the Trimontium Fort.

Carthage, El Jem, Sabratha and Leptis Magna

What a time we had! Our first reactions are given in the story we sent to the local Scottish Borders press on 5 October. The 'do' at the Gala Night on 6 November brought it all together. What an experience!

A dozen-strong party of members and friends of the Trust left for North Africa on Friday 19 September

The North Africa trip - a first for the Trust - was to take in the principal Roman remains in Tunisia and Libya. Three of the party also flew across Libya to visit the Greek settlements. The Gala Night in Melrose on Thursday 6 November presented the illustrations and reports of the trip.

Now we've returned you can find out all about the trip.

Gattonside Ridge Walk

Obituary

Mrs Barbara Elizabeth Linehan, youngest daughter of James Curle

MBE for Trust Secretary

Donald Gordon, the Hon Secretary of the Trust since its inception in 1988, has been awarded an MBE 'for services to the Trust and to the community of Melrose' in the June 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

'Unearthing a Legend'

The story of how James Curle became Scotland's  most celebrated archaeologist appeared in the Saturday Scotsman Magazine for 10 May, 2008

We posted details of our Autumn Lecture Series - talks on Bronze Age recoveries, Traprain Law Treasures and Leptis Magna, Libya. The 2009 Lectures are on the Welcome page.

We organised an outing for our Trust members on Sat. 26 July 2008 to Maryport - a fort on the Cumbrian coast with a plethora of Roman altars.

Issue 22 of our members' yearly newsletter was printed in Spring 2008.. A rather lower resolution version is also available.

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