The 50ft tree is to be removed from Hadrian’s Wall by crane on Thursday
Suggestions for the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree include making benches or a sculpture from the trunk, a National Trust manager has said.Andrew Poad, the site’s general manager for the National Trust, said the organisation was “maintaining an open mind” about what to do with the tree after its removal from the Roman wall.
“We’re hugely appreciative of all the suggestions we’ve had so far and we’re undoubtedly going to be asking for more in the future.” “We needed to find the safest way to get the tree off the wall – both safe for those that are doing the operation but, importantly, safe for the wall,” he said. The tree is too big to move in one piece but experts hope to move the trunk in large sections to keep options open for the future.
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