Vindolanda

Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort just south of in northern England, which it pre-dated. Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Fort
  • Description: Roman fort and archaeological site on Stanegate, England
  • Also known as: “Castra Vindolanda”, “Chesterholm Roman Fort”, “Chesterholm-Vindolanda (Samian Ware Discovery Site)”, and “Vindolanda Roman Fort”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Chesterholm Museum - Vindolanda and Sycamore Gap tree.

Museum
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 620 feet east of Vindolanda.

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The , also known as the Robin Hood tree, was a 120-year-old sycamore tree next to near in , England. is situated 1 mile northwest of Vindolanda.

Archaeological site
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was a milecastle on in the vicinity of Hotbank Farm. It is notable for the joint inscription bearing the names of the emperor Hadrian and Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Britannia at the time the Wall was built. is situated 1 mile north of Vindolanda.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Once Brewed and Plenmeller.

Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England. It lies on the Military Road. A motorist arriving over the B6318 from the east will see the place name shield "Once Brewed", while those coming from the west will read "Twice Brewed".

Locality
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of with Whitfield, in , England about a mile southeast of . In 1951 the parish had a population of 107. is situated 4 miles southwest of Vindolanda.

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY 2.0.
is a market town in , along the route between Newcastle and Carlisle, with a population of 4650 in 2021. It contrived to be named for a railway halt over 600 years before that railway arrived: Hautwysel means a hill between two forks of a river. is the main reason to visit, the Roman frontier defence built in 122 AD.

Vindolanda

Latitude
54.99138° or 54° 59′ 29″ north
Longitude
-2.36026° or 2° 21′ 37″ west
Elevation
548 feet (167 metres)
Operator
Vindolanda Trust (Charity No. 1159798 Company No. 9182268)
Open location code
9C6VXJRQ+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10089459650
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­fort
Geo­Names ID
6942441
Wiki­data ID
Q1233131
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Vindolanda” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Vindolanda”
  • Bulgarian: “Виндоланда”
  • Catalan: “Vindolanda”
  • Cebuano: “Vindolanda”
  • Chinese: “文德蘭達要塞”
  • Czech: “Vindolanda”
  • Danish: “Vindolanda”
  • Dutch: “Vindolanda”
  • French: “Vindolanda”
  • German: “Kastell Chesterholm”
  • German: “Kastell Vindolanda”
  • German: “Vindolanda”
  • Hebrew: “וינדולנדה”
  • Hungarian: “Vindolanda”
  • Italian: “Vindolanda”
  • Italian: “Vindolandia”
  • Japanese: “ヴィンドランダ要塞”
  • Latin: “Vindolanda”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vindolanda”
  • Polish: “Vindolanda”
  • Portuguese: “Vindolanda”
  • Russian: “Виндоланда”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vindolanda”
  • Spanish: “Vindolanda”
  • Swedish: “Vindolanda”

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