How to visit Vindolanda Roman Fort and Museum and the Roman Army Museum. This page will take you through the new systems we have in place for visiting our sites, what is open and how to visit. Read more
"Two destinations | One ticket | A great day out"
Historic England is partnering with the Vindolanda Trust to offer 10 bursary places for the 2022 excavations, reserved to students aged 16-19. Applicants must be in full time education or freshly graduated from schools in the Tyne Valley Catchment area, including Brampton, Haydon Bridge and Hexham.
We have selected some of our favourite photographs for our new 2022 A4 wall calendar: Roman Vindolanda throughout the seasons.
Have you got questions about what to expect when you arrive or how to book? Take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions page which answers some of our visitors most popular queries.
Who was Atto and what was his job at Vindolanda? Was he bored when he carved his name into his work bench? Was it his bench that he did not want to share? Was he the cobbler who had sat for days repairing soldiers’ footwear? The punch marks certainly suggest that this bench was used for leatherwork...
24 January - 23 September 2022 Join us in celebrating 1900 years of Hadrian's Wall with our 1900 Bunting Challenge. Create by knitting, crocheting or sewing the shield design bunting flags to help us reach our target of 1900 bunting flags to be displayed at Roman Vindolanda in October 2022.
Overview of the Vindolanda Trusts aims and objectives
24 January - 23 September 2022 Join us in celebrating 1900 years of Hadrian's Wall with our 1900 Bunting Challenge. Create by knitting, crocheting or sewing the shield design bunting flags to help us reach our target of 1900 bunting flags to be displayed at Roman Vindolanda in October 2022. Read more
12th February - November 2022 *Extended* Roman Army Museum A temporary exhibition at the Roman Army Museum showing an assembly of militiary artefacts never seen in pulbic which are on private loan to the Vindolanda Trust. Read more
Replica altars to the Roman God Jupiter Dolichenus placed back in religious shrine at Vindolanda enabling visitors to see them in their original setting for the first time in 1,800 years. Read more
A small, child sized, and eerily life-like bronze hand has been discovered during the excavation of a Severan fort ditch at Roman Vindolanda. Read more