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Vindolanda tablets

The Vindolanda tablets are some of the oldest surviving handwritten documents in Britain (antedated by the Bloomberg tablets from Roman London). They are a rich source of information about life on the northern frontier of Roman Britain. Written on fragments of thin, postcard-sized wooden leaf-tablets with carbon-based ink, the tablets date to the 1st and…

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Created
late 1st to early 2nd century AD
Material
Birch · Alder · Oak
Period/culture
Romano-British
Place
Vindolanda
Present location
Room 49, British Museum, London
Registration
1989,0602.74

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related to Imaging · 17
Vindolanda tablets → Alison Rutherford, Ancient Documents, Archaeological Computing Research Group, Blackshaw, British Museum, Centre, GRAVA, In, Kodak Wratten, Oxford, Southampton, Study, Susan, The, University, Vindolanda, XML
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Vindolanda tablets → Archived, British Museum, CSAD, EE, Item, June, OxfordVindolanda Tablets, OxfordVindolanda Tablets Online II, RIB Online, University, Vindolanda Tablet, Vindolanda Tablets Online, Wayback Machine
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Vindolanda tablets → Herodian, Nearly, Roman, Roman Britain, The, The Vindolanda, They, Vindolanda
Material · 3
Vindolanda tablets → Alder, Birch, Oak
Created · 1
Vindolanda tablets → late 1st to early 2nd century AD
Period/culture · 1
Vindolanda tablets → Romano-British
Place · 1
Vindolanda tablets → Vindolanda
Present location · 1
Vindolanda tablets → Room 49, British Museum, London
Registration · 1
Vindolanda tablets → 1989,0602.74
Size · 1
Vindolanda tablets → Length: 182 mm (7.2 in)

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tablets vindolanda roman museum writing british ink found isbn written tablet fort britain alan bowman northern latin letters used david

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Vindolanda tabletsCreatedlate 1st to early 2nd century AD1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsMaterialBirch1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsMaterialAlder1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsMaterialOak1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsPeriod/cultureRomano-British1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsPlaceVindolanda1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsPresent locationRoom 49, British Museum, London1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsRegistration1989,0602.741.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsSizeLength: 182 mm (7.2 in)1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsWritingLatin1.00infobox
Vindolanda tabletsrelated to DescriptionThe0.60section
Vindolanda tabletsrelated to DescriptionVindolanda0.60section

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