People offer Asterix a home

Thursday 2nd September 2010, 2:29PM BST.

Twenty-six years ago a major part of the wreck that is Britain’s largest Roman maritime object and northern Europe’s most historically significant artefact comes to the surface. The Guernsey Maritime Trust raised the wreck during 1984-86. (244713A84)

ISLANDERS have been offering their properties as potential homes for Guernsey’s Roman wreck, Asterix.

This follows the news in July that the States is running out of time to decide what to do with the ship, which has to be moved from the Mary Rose Trust in Portsmouth by the end of 2011 because restoration work has finished.

At present, there is nowhere suitable to store the vessel in Guernsey so the Culture and Leisure Department is now looking into options ranging from a walk-in store to a large-scale public display and in price from £500,000 to £5m.

But minister Mike O’Hara said the department had received a lot of calls from people keen to help.