Lectures

While our on site lectures are on hold we hope to start running a series of online lectures based around the continuing research taking place at Vindolanda.

These will all be fundraising lectures with any funds raised going towards the survival appeal to help the Vindolanda Trust come out of the other side of the global pandemic.

If you missed our wonderful 2020 Christmas Lecture with Marta Alberti our site archaeologist, it is available to watch with any donation given to the Trust (a link is included with the email receipt of the donation). An hour long lecture giving a great over view of the site and a look at the current excavations.

We will announce upcoming lectures on this page, through our newsletter and on our social media.

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

Upcoming Lectures:

When: 2021, 25th November 19.00 (GMT)

Dr Andrew Birley, CEO of the Vindolanda Trust will explore the archaeological layers where the wooden artefacts came from and cast a light on why these organic finds are so well preserved.

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When: 7th December 2021, 19.00 (GMT)

Join our Curator, Barbara Birley as she talks about her connections to the wooden objects and the journey from excavation through to their conservation and the cataloguing process.

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The lectures are part of the online exhibition: Digging up memories - making connections

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