Sources
The exhibition draws on texts of tablets published in volumes I
and II. Volume III will publish tablets that contain significant
new information on many of the exhibition themes.
The exhibition also uses archaeological evidence from the excavations
of the 1970s and 1980s at Vindolanda, but it is not intended as
a general introduction to the archaeological site. The tablets derive
from a restricted area of the fort and from occupation layers dating
to only a few decades in the late first and early second centuries
AD. Archaeologists at Vindolanda have however explored many other
areas of the fort, revealing occupation layers dating from the late
first to fifth centuries AD, which are not explored here. More information
can be found in numerous publications.
The understanding of Vindolanda’s development continues to
develop as excavations progress and up-to-date information may be
found on the Vindolanda Trust
website.
The exhibition also draws on other archaeological and historical
information from Britain’s northern frontier and elsewhere
to illustrate the context and content of the tablets. For more information
on the topics of the exhibition, both online and in print, please
follow ‘Links’.
Acknowledgements
For full acknowledgements for the site please see ‘about
this site’. We are particularly grateful to Robin Birley
and the Vindolanda Trust for their assistance with the exhibition,
in particular for providing images of the site and of artefacts.
The site at Vindolanda is
one of the best preserved and most extensively displayed on Britain’s
northern frontier and is open all year round. A large on-site museum
also displays finds from the excavations.
We thank also the other institutions which have supplied images
for the exhibition. Many of the images are taken from other sites
and museums on the northern frontier which can also be visited,
including Wallsend
- 'Segedunum', The Museum
of Antiquities, Newcastle University, Brigantium
Archaeological Reconstruction Park, High Rochester, the National
Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Grosvenor
Museum, Chester.
The tablets themselves are stored in the British
Museum and some are displayed in the Weston and Greek and Roman
Galleries. Other museums and bodies which have made images available
include the Ancient
World Mapping Center, the Ashmolean
Museum, Oxford, the Portable
Antiquities Scheme, V Cohors Gallorum, Verulamium
Museum and Vroma.
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