Vindolanda

Also known as Vindolanda Roman Fort, Chesterholm Roman Fort, Castra Vindolanda, Chesterholm-Vindolanda (Samian Ware Discovery Site)

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD. Located near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, it guarded the Stanegate, the Roman road from the River Tyne to the Solway Firth. It is noted for the Vindolanda tablets, a set of wooden leaf-tablets that were, at the time of their discovery, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain.

Key facts

Military installation.name: Vindolanda
Military installation.location: Bardon Mill, Northumberland, U.K.
Military installation.image: File:Kastell und Vicus von Vindolanda, Luftbild, 2010.jpg
Military installation.image_size: 250px
Military installation.caption: Vindolanda from the air
Military installation.map_type: Northumberland
Military installation.map_relief: 1
Military installation.map_size: 200
Military installation.map_caption: Shown within Northumberland
Military installation.type: Roman fort
Military installation.condition: Derelict
Military installation.open_to_public: Yes
Military installation.controlledby: Vindolanda Trust
Military installation.website: https://www.vindolanda.com/

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Country: United Kingdom
Located in: Henshaw
Official website: www.vindolanda.com
Image: Vindolanda bathhouse - 2007-05-19.jpg

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principal investigator: Eric Birley
Commons category: Vindolanda
culture: Ancient Rome
postal code: NE47 7JN
exact match: data.archaeology.link/data/samian/loc_ds_1003470
inception: 0085-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 0900-00-00
P12749: Thomas A. Curran

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Vindolanda foi um forte romano para forças auxiliares (castrum) que guardava a Stanegate, uma importante estrada romana que ia do rio Tyne até , estuário que fica na fronteira entre Inglaterra e Escócia. É conhecido, principalmente, pelas placas de Vindolanda, entre vários achados arqueológicos importantes, como cartas escritas em madeira vindas de várias partes do Império Romano.

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