Vindolanda

Vindolanda
Bardon Mill, Northumberland, U.K.
Military bathhouse at Vindolanda
Vindolanda
Coordinates	54°59′28″N 2°21′39″W / 54.9911°N 2.3608°W / 54.9911; -2.3608
Grid reference	grid reference NY7766
Type	Roman fort
Site information
Controlled by	Vindolanda Trust
Open to the public	Yes
Condition	Derelict
Website	http://www.vindolanda.com/

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated.^{[note 1]} 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.^[1]

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