Luguvalium
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Luguvalium was an ancient Roman city in northern Britain located within present-day Carlisle, Cumbria, and may have been the capital of the 4th-century province of Valentia. It was the northernmost ci
The Stanegate road and frontier; the road continued west of Carlisle to Kirkbride.
Vindolanda tablets
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The Vindolanda tablets are some of the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain. They are a rich source of information about life on the northern frontier of Roman Britain. Written on fragmen
Tablet 343: Letter from Octavius to Candidus concerning supplies of wheat, hides and sinews.
Archaeologists at work in Vindolanda, 2006
Invitation from Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Lepidina, ref Tab. Vindol. II 291
Tablets on display at the British Museum