An Exciting New Hoard of Ancient Roman Writing Tablets Unearthed at Vindolanda.
On the afternoon of Thursday the 22nd of June, at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland, archaeologists made one of their most important discoveries since 1992. A new hoard of around 25 Roman ink documents, known as the Vindolanda writing tablets (letters, lists and personal correspondence), were discovered lying in the damp and anaerobic earth where they had been discarded towards the end of the 1st century AD.
These incredibly rare and fragile wafer-thin pieces of wood are often less than 2mm in thickness and about the size of modern
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