A project that will research one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in the North East has been launched on the 50th anniversary of their discovery.
A stream of writing tablets flowed in and out of the Vindolanda Roman fort in Northumberland as its population went about their daily lives. More than 1,800 tablets have been found at Vindolanda - the largest collection of Roman writing in the Western Roman Empire – and they have been voted Britain’s greatest archaeological treasure.
This year Vindolanda is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the finding of the first tablets and the insights the writing provides on life on the frontier almost 2,000 years ago. Now the British Museum has launched a research project into how the tablets were made and what links they show between the fort and the wider empire.
