Check out this fascinating cavalry altar discovered at the Vindolanda Roman Fort during spring excavations in 2021. We used clay that mimics the gritty texture of the original to recreate it. Get yours now! buff.ly/3121KCt #RomanHistory #Archaeology

A 2000-year-old Roman child's wooden sword found at the Vindolanda fort site in northern England.

Vindolanda, Northumberland - UK :

Built to protect the Stanegate (a road which ran just south of Hadrian's Wall), Vindolanda is perhaps best known as the site where the Vindolanda Tablets (the oldest handwritten documents in Britain, dating to 1st-2nd Centuries AD) were found.…

A #Roman military letter send to the commander at #Vindolanda by an officer, asking him to arrange leave for several soldiers & to return a cleaving-knife that had been loaned to a soldier in the unit; the sender adds that he has sent some plants over in return #Roman FortThursday

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Due to the benevolence of the Wall gods, I happened to visit Vindolanda Trust this morning with an Archaeology at NCL fieldtrip, to see the newly discovered phallus! A fine example of the splitcock type from the Collins phallus typology, and Vindolanda's ?16th stone phallus carving

Roman Soldiers wrote home
The Vindolanda tablets
are thin pieces of wood about the size of a modern postcard, which were used as writing paper for the Roman soldiers garrisoned at the fort of Vindolanda between AD 85 and 130

Topics covered on the tablets include letters to…

Who does the fascinating cavalry altar discovered at Vindolanda Roman Fort depict? Soldiers in fourth-century barracks may have merged two deities to create their own God for guidance and protection. Get yours now buff.ly/3121KCt

Always great to see #Vindolanda represented in major exhibitions such as Legion including tent leather panels and the famous “wretched Britons” tablet also a tablet mentioning Cerialis asking for a job reference. It was was the wife of Cerialis who received the famous birthday…

Did you know that you can only buy my cards in 3 places? at Crown Studio Gallery in Rothbury, in my online shop crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com OR Vindolanda Trust (though understandably Vindolanda only stocks the Hadrian's Wall themed ones!) #madeinNorthumberland

One of the most famous inscriptions from Roman antiquity is from Vindolanda, a fort along Hadrian’s Wall in northern Britain. This is the so-called “birthday letter” of Claudia Severa, who was writing to her friend Sulpicia Lepidina around 100 CE.

#HillfortsWednesday a sunny April view of Barcombe Hill watching over Vindolanda and the excavations

Espada de madera de un niño romano de 2.000 años de antigüedad encontrada en el fuerte de Vindolanda, en el norte de Inglaterra.

T Form's second day in Northumberland saw them head to the Roman Fort, Vindolanda, and the Roman Army Museum Vindolanda Trust.

They enjoyed exploring the site and interacting with the exhibits at the museum.🐝

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Particularly delighted by the oldest known example of women's handwriting in the world: the post-script on a birthday invitation from Claudia Severa, whose husband was stationed at Vindolanda in the north of England.

Our Year 10 Latin students took a trip to Hadrian's Wall to explore the fortress at Vindolanda and got the chance to witness an active archaeological dig excavating a new section of the site! 🏛️

Review of a fascinating series of short online talks Vindolanda: a Window on Life in the Roman Army from @BritishMusuem from my art diary. cathyartdiary.blogspot.com/2024/04/vindol…

Stu Cameron I’ll never forget - prior to the 2016 election I was volunteering at Vindolanda and everyone kept asking me if I thought Trump would win. I said I refuse to believe that is possible. So non-Americans cared even then, before we knew just how awful he was.

T Form are in Northumberland on their History trip and are enjoying an action-packed few days. 🐝

Yesterday they visited Beamish, Living Museum of the North Beamish Museum. Today they are off to the Roman fort, Vindolanda, and the Roman Army Museum Vindolanda Trust. 🐝

The eternal dilemma of historical or time travel writers. I had my heroine archaeologist have a fascination with Roman sandals due to the number excavated at Vindolanda. I slip it in as a joke thru the series. How do you manage it?
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