Category: Vindolanda
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Parasitical infection of soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall
Whipworm egg from the analysis of sediment from the sewer drain leading from the latrine block at the 3rd century CE bath complex at Vindolanda. Credit: Marissa Ledger by The University of Cambridge – edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan – December 2025 I came across this article in Phys.org and thought it was very interesting…
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Hadrian’s Wall: A Marvel of Roman Engineering
”And so, having reformed the army quite in the manner of a monarch, he set out for Britannia, and there he corrected many abuses and was the first to construct a wall, eighty miles in length, which was to separate the barbarians from the Romans” – Historia Augusta The wall commonly known as ‘Hadrians’ is…
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Drought responsible for British rebellion against Romans
The following article was published in The Guardian online by Harriet Sherwood on Thursday 17th April 2025 The pivotal ‘barbarian conspiracy’ of AD 367 saw Picts, Scotti and Saxons inflicting crushing blows on Roman defences. A series of exceptionally dry summers that caused famine and social breakdown were behind one of the most severe threats…
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Roman Bigfoot!
by the multi-award winning journalist Tony Henderson Evidence has emerged of Northumberland’s very own Bigfoot during a dig at a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall. Excavations by teams of volunteers are investigating defensive ditches at the little-explored Magna fort, which is also the site of the Vindolanda Trust’s Roman Army Museum. And the latest find has…
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