The National Trust has warned that delays in the government scheme for heritage payments to farmers will put parts of Hadrian’s Wall, as well as other important historical sites, under threat.

Farmers are meant to receive compensation for preserving Britain’s historic monuments and archaeology, but the payments have been delayed.

Brexit and university cutbacks are fuelling a crisis in recruitment of skilled workers.

THE UK made history by leaving the European Union. Now Brexit threatens the archaeology work that links us to our past as experts are blocked by red tape, it is claimed.

Visa uncertainty and expected loss of EU funding affecting culture industry, leaders say. The expected loss of EU funding and uncertainty over the status of EU nationals after March 2019 meant UK museums were already losing scientists, researchers and curators, and there was a shortage of archaeologists, they said.