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    Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the...
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    The Vindolanda tablets were, at the time of their discovery, the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain (they have since been antedated by the...
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  • The Hand of God is a bronze hand found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, thought to be from the third century AD. It is unlikely that it was actually intended...
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    the wife of Aelius Brocchus, commander of an unidentified fort near Vindolanda fort in northern England. She is known for a birthday invitation she sent...
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    Chamalières tablet Demotic (Egyptian) Hieratic Larzac tablet Vindolanda tablets Oxford, Scripts at Vindolanda page 2 page 3 De Robertis, Teresa (November 10, 2020)...
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  • 101-146, here 145. Mattingly op cit 168-9 Vindolanda Tablet 154 Mattingly op cit 162-5 Vindolanda Tablet 346 Vindolanda Tablet 164 Holder (2003) 145...
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    the South Tyne until it meets the next major fort, at Vindolanda (Chesterholm). From Vindolanda the Stanegate crosses the route of the present-day Military...
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  • Flavius Cerialis, prefect of the Ninth Cohort of Batavians, stationed at Vindolanda in Roman Britain in the early 2nd century AD. She is known from her correspondence...
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  • He was the Director of Excavations at the Roman site of Vindolanda and head of the Vindolanda research committee. He was the son of Eric Birley (a scholar...
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    from 130 AD. The Falkirk Tartan, a wool 2:2 herringbone tartan found at Vindolanda in England from around 240 AD. Herringbone pattern Calasibetta, Charlotte...
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