Magna Climate Conference

All of the sessions from the 2025 Magna Climate Conference have been recorded and are now available for you to watch at your convivence.

Click on the link below to revisit your favourite talk or catch up on any sessions you may have missed. For more information on each of the speakers, click here.

Session 1: Unveiling Magna Fort

Rachel Frame – From frontier fort to family farm

Professor Trudi Buck – Living and Dying at Magna: New cemetery discovery

Dr Christoph Rummel – Putting the MAG in Magna – recent gradiometer surveys by the RGK

Session 2: Scientific Exploration of Magna

Dr Gillian Taylor – Environmental Monitoring Programme at Magna

Dr Tanja Romankiewicz – Geoarchaeological analysis of the Vallum

Jacqui Huntley, Brian Huntley, and Franki Gillis – Rainfall: scale and distribution

Session 3: Ecological Research

Dr Eva Panagiotakopulu – Insect camp followers on Hadrian’s Wall

Dr Bob McCulloch – Reconstructing the changing landscape at Magna

Dr Gillian Taylor and Beth Hinnigan – Stories from the Soil

Session 4: Connecting Heritage

Dr Elizabeth Greene – Shoes and leather objects from Magna ditches

Dr Cristina Crizbasan – Milecastle 46: New Perspectives with preliminary 2025 Findings

Dr Marta Alberti-Dunn and Sophie Westlake – What role do volunteers have in communicating the impact of climate change to heritage visitors? A Magna case study

Session 5 – Wider Lessons from across the Roman Frontiers

Tom Hazenberg – Combating drought at the Lower German Limes

Tom Dommett – Landscape Histories and Landscape Futures – Climate Change & the Historic Environment at the National Trust

Dr Rebecca Jones – Applying the Climate Vulnerability Index to Roman Frontiers