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
Claudia Severa
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Claudia Severa was a literate Roman woman, the wife of Aelius Brocchus, commander of an unidentified fort near Vindolanda fort in northern England. She is known for a birthday invitation she sent arou
Possibly the earliest extant words written by a woman in Latin
Remains of stone forts at Vindolanda