Bardon Mill

The Soldiers Have No beer
Helencbradshaw about Roman Vindolanda and Roman Army Museum
The Soldiers Have no Beer. Please fetch some right away. Just one of the messages found on the priceless writing tablets, made from Birch and Alder wood, and, dating from Period III at Vindolanda (97-105AD) represent some of the earliest records in Britain. (The writing tablets themselves are now being professionally stored in the British Museum.) Hadrians Wall is, of course, the most Northern Frontier for the Roman Invasion of Britain, and was built as a defence for the Barbarians further north. Vindolanda appears to have been occupied around AD 85, some 40 years[...]