All of our lectures are fundraising lectures with any funds raised going to help the Vindolanda Trust with everything from excavation and conservation to staff wages and keeping the museums running. 

We will announce upcoming lectures on our events page and through our newsletter.

We look forward to sharing more about our sites and collection with you soon.

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Previous Lectures:

Below we have a selection of our previous lectures to watch if you missed the live lectures.

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Digging in the Archives - Dr. Catherine Teitz (45 minutes).

Dr. Catherine Teitz discusses the Vindolanda principia building and its long life from Stone Fort II through the post-Roman period. She will share excavation notes and photographs, linking legacy data from the 1930s with 21^st century work. In this talk, she will propose a different way that the principia building might have been designed, adapted, and used, contrasting the 1936 excavation report in Archaeologia Aeliana. This lecture will focus on the masonry and structural analysis, letting the walls speak for themselves – with the help of the archives. 

Dr. Teitz has worked with the Vindolanda Trust since 2019, researching in the archives and digging on site. Her dissertation “The Best Laid Plans: Assessing Urban Space on Hadrian’s Wall” (Stanford University, 2023) examined Vindolanda and Corbridge as urban spaces, drawing especially on legacy data to re-examine the architecture and archaeology of both sites. 

The Vindolanda Wooden Combs - Barbara Birley, Curator (46mins)

Curator, Barbara Birley, as she talks about her connections to the wooden objects, the journey from the excavation through to their conservation and the cataloguing process. She will also tell you about her unexpected fascination with a beautiful but functional class of wooden artefacts, the hair combs.

Archaeology of the Wooden Underworld - Dr Andrew Birley, Director of Excavations and CEO (49mins)

Dr Andrew Birley, CEO of the Vindolanda Trust explores the archaeological layers where wooden artefacts are found at Roman Vindolanda and casts a light on why these organic finds are so well preserved.

Wooden Objects at the Edge of the Roman Empire - Dr Rob Sands (36mins)

Dr Rob Sands from University College Dublin will introduce you to the extraordinary collection of wooden objects preserved in 1st and 2nd century contexts at the Roman fort of Vindolanda.

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The Vindolanda Shoes - Professor Elizabeth Greene (1hr 2mins)

Professor Elizabeth Greene who’s research is based around Vindolanda’s leather collection, takes us through the top 10 questions ever asked about the Vindolanda Roman shoes and their fascinating answers.

Bonfire Celebration