Vindolanda

Auxiliary fort south of what became Hadrian's Wall. The wooden Vindolanda tablets — Rome's oldest written documents from Britain — come from around our snapshot.

An uninhabited Roman fort site near Hexham, England, on Hadrian's Wall's UNESCO frontier, and still an active dig with volunteer excavations every summer.

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