Vindolanda

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) located just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it predated [1]. Archaeological excavations reveal it was occupied from approximately 85 AD to 370 AD [1]. Situated near the modern village of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, the fort guarded the Stanegate—the Roman road connecting the River Tyne to the Solway Firth [1]. The site is renowned for the Vindolanda tablets, a collection of wooden leaf-tablets that, at the time of their discovery, were the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain [1].