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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Two award-winning museums along the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hadrian’s Wall, with an active archaeological site and ongoing research and conservation. An independent charity which continues to excavate, conserve, research and educate with money it raises from visitors to our sites.

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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 är ett romerskt auxilia-fort från nuvarande (norra England) som byggdes i slutet av 100-talet e.Kr. Arkeologen som grävt där sen 1969 har gjort dom nyligaste upptäckterna på fortet. Han hittade en byggnad som härstammar från första hälften av 100-talet e.Kr. som är grannbyggnad med det äldre fortet. Det finns många inskriptioner och texter från den här perioden. Man har hittat av trä eftersom fortet stod under vatten. Man läser skivtavlorna med hjälp av eftersom texten var ristad i vax och tunna träremsor med bläckinskrifter. Fortet ligger söder om Hadrianus mur i norra England. Fortet ger en inblick i livet vid romarrikets norra gräns.

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