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In recent years Trust members have enjoyed an annual outing. Usually there is a coachload from the Borders and Edinburgh - sometimes joined by members from other parts of Scotland, if the venue is within travelling distance. People have sometimes travelled huge distances, in our terms, to be with us e.g. from Angus and Lancaster for the Safari round the Trimontium site on 2 Sept, 2000.

We have visited Vindolanda (at Hadrian's Wall) where the Birleys - Robin, Pat and now Andrew have always made us welcome. (They loaned us material for display, and even a showcase, when we had our early free Exhibition in Melrose Station in 1989-90). We have also visited the Eastern and Western sections of the Antonine Wall, the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow (to see, with Prof. Lawrence Keppie, the collection of Antonine Wall Distance slabs); the Burrell Collection and the Charles Rennie Mackintosh house on that same day in Glasgow; Ardoch, the Roman fort at Braco in Perthshire, with its acres of ditches; and Segedunum (Wallsend), Arbeia (South Shields) and Brigantium (High Rochester) on a July Saturday in Millennium year.

The venue on Sat 26 May, 2001 was the Scottish Crannog Centre at Kenmore, Loch Tay, where we saw the 'roundhouse on stilts in the water' and the artefacts and skills associated with it. Birrens and Burnswalk and the Gask Ridge Frontier were the latest venues.

Friends Romans Countrymen
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen" Ardoch, July 2005.
Jim Walker addresses the Trimontium Trust.
Ardoch Ditch
The Ardoch Ditches - What Trimontium would have been like but for 18th century of agricultural improvements.
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Updating of the website by SCSupport Date: Aug 2005