A pair of married volunteer archaeologists working at the Vindolanda archaeological site near Northumberland recently scored a big win. Jim and Dilys Quinlan discovered a sandstone relief—a sculpture ...

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Found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, this piece of leather was cut into the shape of a mouse. The Vindolanda Trust Researchers at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in northern England recently discovered ...

An artefact discovered at a Northumberland Hadrian's Wall site made a surprise appearance on a BBC Two quiz on Monday night - alongside Diego Maradona. On Monday's edition of Only Connect, a bronze ...

Sites along Hadrian's Wall have been producing artifacts of various kinds for decades. But as the years have passed, the discoveries have become few and far between. As such, imagine the surprise of ...

An ancient statue depicting the Roman goddess of victory has been unearthed at Hadrian’s Wall by amateur archaeologists. The symbolic find of the winged goddess was discovered in a reused pile of ...

The Northumberland archaeologist Dr Robin Birley, who himself made history with the discovery of what was voted Britain’s greatest treasure, has died. The founding director of the Vindolanda Trust, ...

1st or 2nd century AD. On display at the British Museum in London. This letter was found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland. It is written in Latin from an entrepreneur named Octavius ...

Odds are good you read at least one of the umpteen media stories last month about a possible 2,000-year-old “dildo” unearthed near the remains of a Roman auxiliary fort in the UK called Vindolanda.

Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a pile of rubble at the famed Roman fort Vindolanda. Dated to about 213 A.D.