roman
Type
Bardon Mill
Where
roman · Museum
Good for
Check before you go
Cost
Plan your visit
Opening times
Open access — check locally for facilities
Location
Bardon Mill
Parent hack
Arrive at opening time in school holidays — you'll beat the queues and the car park.
Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort (castrum) just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it pre-dated. 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.
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