Why is Vindolanda to the south of Hadrian’s Wall?

The first Vindolanda fort was built almost 40 years before the Wall was constructed and was part of an earlier frontier system called the Stanegate Frontier. Stanegate forts, forming part of this defensive system, were Magna (Carvoran) and Coria (Corbridge). With the building of Hadrian’s Wall these Stanegate forts were amalgamated into the new defensive system.