#vindolanda

Ste Lingard

@stelingard.bsky.social

1 week ago

The partially excavated outline of a Roman fort and its vicus in a countryside landscape. There are reconstructed towers and sections of wall in the bottom right, outside the fort itself.

#Vindolanda pictured in May 1980, at a much earlier stage in the epic and ongoing excavations there. The reconstruction towers and sections of wall built in the 70s are plainly visible, bottom right. #RomanFortThursday #Northumberland

Image: Cambridge Air Photos, CUCAP 35kCB022

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

1 week ago

The remains of a 4th century centurion’s quarters or officer’s mess (schola) at Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland.
📸 My own. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #Northumberland

🌙 🍉 Anushka 🏳️‍🌈 ✨

@anushkabenari.eurosky.social

1 week ago

Las tablillas de Vindolanda muestran cómo los soldados romanos fabricaban su propia tinta con técnicas antiguas ya obsoletas en el Mediterráneo A los pies del Muro de Adriano, en el puesto más septentrional del Imperio Romano, los soldados no solo luchaban contra las tribus pictas; también escribían cartas a casa, redactaban informes militare...

Las tablillas de #Vindolanda muestran cómo los soldados romanos fabricaban su propia tinta con técnicas antiguas ya obsoletas en el Mediterráneo:
www.labrujulaverde.com/2026/03/las-...

Pete Savin

@petesavin.bsky.social

1 month ago

Happy Valentine’s Day, this touching pendant made of jet was found at #Vindolanda fort and dates to the late 3rd century AD. Thought to be a betrothal gift it can now be viewed within the onsite museum #hadrianswall #archaeology #ValentinesDay

Pete Savin

@petesavin.bsky.social

1 month ago

I think I’ve the guide book issue covered! Interesting to see how much change there has been at #Vindolanda since 1971

Stephen J Jenkins

@jnknssj.bsky.social

1 month ago

Photograph of a chunky wooden key with four teeth, resting upon a section of the wooden lock into which it presumably once fitted. The lock is rectangular in shape, with a large transverse groove from which lead three narrower longitudinal grooves. A circular hole may be seen at each end of the lock.

Lock and Key, at the Vindolanda Museum. #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #Vindolanda #Northumberland #RomanBritain #Locks #Keys #Woodcarving #Photography

Stephen J Jenkins

@jnknssj.bsky.social

2 months ago

A photograph showing a fragment of roman scale armour (lorica squamata) against a red background. The armour comprises 24 individual rounded-rectangular scales, gold in colour and held together by wires of a similar material.

Scale Armour (Lorica Squamata) in the museum at Vindolanda. #RomanFortThursday #Archaeology #Armour #Vindolanda #Northumberland #RomanBritain #Photography

Kate Sheehan-Finn

@katesfwriter.bsky.social

2 months ago

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More than 2000 years later, during the Roman imperial period, jet and its cheaper equivalent cannel coal, was still used to make personal ornaments, as this selection on display at #Vindolanda shows. These objects are made of jet.
#RomanBritain
#FindsFriday #Archaeology
📸 my own, Vindolanda.

Kate Sheehan-Finn

@katesfwriter.bsky.social

2 months ago

One of two of the Roman bath houses at Vindolanda, in the vicus, close to the fort’s west gate.
This fort was occupied by Coh IV Gallorum from the early 3rd C.
The baths served the soldiers and townspeople of #Vindolanda south of #HadriansWall.
#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology
📸 my own.

'Em Hotep 🦋

@emhotep.bsky.social

2 months ago

Biglietto di Capodanno di 1.900 anni fa riemerso dal fango: l’augurio romano ritrovato a Vindolanda. Chi era il destinatario? Chi il mittente? Come si è conservato il messaggio augurale originale? Biglietto di auguri per l'anno nuovo di 1900 anni fa. Chi erano i due romani, mittente e destinatario. Quando cadeva il capodanno roamano. Come si è è conservata la lettera

Un augurio di duemila anni fa. Da #Vindolanda con affetto. 😊 #archeologia #GranBretagna
www.stilearte.it/biglietto-au...

Pete Savin

@petesavin.bsky.social

2 months ago

The video about the latrines at #Vindolanda fort which is situated just south of Hadrian’s Wall (the fort not the loo) an excellent paper on the analysis of the waste from the bath house toilets can be be found in this link m.facebook.com/story.php?st... #hadrianswall #archaeology #toilets

@visittoscotland.bsky.social

2 months ago

Tonight, I am reporting on recent studies which indicate that the #Roman era occupants of #Vindolanda fort near #Hadrian's Wall suffered from intestinal #parasites which would have affected the soldiers effectiveness:www.nigelsphotoblog.co.uk/2025/12/intestinal-roman...

AllyD

@allyd.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy

2 months ago

Squeamish reading about toilet issues at the #Vindolanda fort on Hadrian's Wall. You'd like to think things have improved in 2000 years, but with the state of the English water companies that's not so sure […]

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

2 months ago

The remains of a butcher’s shop and house - part of the town (vicus) that developed around the Roman Fort at Vindolanda in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #Northumberland

Kate Sheehan-Finn

@katesfwriter.bsky.social

3 months ago

A Roman dagger from a waterlogged environment at #Vindolanda Roman fort in #Northumberland.

Every Roman soldier carried a dagger like this. The handle is missing - it may have been made of bone or wood.

Early AD 2nd C.
#Archaeology #RomanBritain
📸 my own.

Kate Sheehan-Finn

@katesfwriter.bsky.social

3 months ago

Roman silver phalera depicting Medusa’s head from a barrack in a timber fort at #Vindolanda, AD 105-120.
Phalerae decorated breastplates that soldiers wore on parade.
Medusa’s gaze was said to turn people to stone, perfect to frighten enemies.
#FindsFriday #Archaeology #RomanBritain
📸 my own.

Sarah Lord

@potsofhistory.bsky.social

3 months ago

ADVENT SALE 🦉We’re excited to add this special Vindolanda votive pot, inspired by the original. Handmade to match the real thing. A video in the listing explains the find and may surprise you. Unwrap some history:
potted-history.co.uk/products/vot...
#PottedHistory #archaeology #Vindolanda

Antinous the Gay God

@antinousgaygod.bsky.social

3 months ago

🪷 19 Nov is #WorldToiletDay. Did #Antinous sit here? Maybe. We're flushed with pride on #toiletday to show the world's oldest wooden toilet seat found at #Vindolanda Roman fort at Hadrian's Wall Vindolanda Trust: antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/flus... 🪷

RomanSites1

@romansites1.bsky.social

3 months ago

A writing tablet from #Vindolanda (346) confirms that soldiers on #HadriansWall definitely needed cosy socks: “I have sent you pairs of socks from Sattua, 2 pairs of sandals and 2 pairs of underpants… Greet Tetricus and all your messmates with whom I pray that you live in the greatest good fortune”

Stephen J Jenkins

@jnknssj.bsky.social

4 months ago

Black and white photograph showing the ruins of a roman military bathhouse. Walls stand several courses high, surrounding an open area that would once have formed part of the hypocaust system. A number of pillars still stand, but the floor they would have supported is missing. Beyond the building, in the distance, is a landscape of grass and occasional trees. The sky above is a featureless white expanse.

Remains of a military bathhouse of the mid-Severan period, Vindolanda, Northumberland. #RomanFortThursday #Vindolanda #RomanBritain #Archaeology #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Photography

Kate Sheehan-Finn

@katesfwriter.bsky.social

4 months ago

When we think about Roman forts & fortresses we imagine them full of soldiers like these in a marble relief depicting Praetorians (imperial guard, AD 51-2).

Women & children were present too as evidenced by this woman’s slipper & child’s boot, #Vindolanda, c.AD 100-105.

#RomanFortThursday
📸 my own

Colin Robinson

@funkmeister69.bsky.social

4 months ago

Vindolanda
#Vindolanda

Kate Sheehan-Finn

@katesfwriter.bsky.social

4 months ago

This dinner set of #Roman Samian Ware/Terra Sigillata was made at La Graufesenque potteries near modern Millau, France.
Potters marks date the manufacture to just before AD 90. It was unused and dumped into the ditch of a late 1st C fort at #Vindolanda.

#RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain
📸 my own

Kevin Wilbraham

@kpw1453.bsky.social

4 months ago

An altar from Roman Vindolanda which was set up by Senilis to the Veteres - a Celtic god who was worshipped along Hadrian’s Wall. On display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Vindolanda #HadriansWall

Northumberart

@northumberart.bsky.social

4 months ago

I'm working on a new 20cm square painting of Sycamore Gap...... From my photos of happier days, before the tree was felled.

But I expect that's very obvious from this photo of it.....😉#Northumberland #HadriansWall #Romans #Housesteads #TheSill #Vindolanda

Stephen J Jenkins

@jnknssj.bsky.social

4 months ago

Close-up photograph of a thin wooden writing tablet, broken into several pieces that have been reassembled. On the tablet can be seen spidery writing in latin, opening with the words Masclus Verecundo.

Writing tablet from Vindolanda, Northumberland. Masclus writes to Verecundus seeking leave for five of his men. #RomanFortThursday #Vindolanda #RomanBritain #Archaeology #Northumberland #MacroPhotography #Photography

Jon Hawke

@archaeohawke.bsky.social

5 months ago

#StandingStoneSunday
(One for the panel 👀🧐)
Bradley Burn.
#Roman milestone, near #Vindolanda Just to the north of the line of the Stanegate Roman road. The fort at Vindolanda lies about 130m to the southwest.
#Archaeology #History
#RomanBritain

@visittoscotland.bsky.social

5 months ago

Tonight, I am providing more information by way of a video clip on the famous #Vindolanda Tablets (postcard size communications) which date back 1900 years as found at site of a #Roman fort on #Hadrian's Wall in northern England:www.nigelsphotoblog.co.uk/2024/04/vindolanda-table...