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Chesters Roman Fort

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Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
Chesters Roman Fort
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Sunday10am - 6pm
Monday10am - 6pm
Tuesday10am - 6pm
Wednesday10am - 6pm
Thursday10am - 6pm
Friday10am - 6pm
Saturday10am - 6pm


Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, which it originally 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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