A Tour of the Excavations at Vindolanda

This spring, Dr. Andrew Birley gave me a tour of the ongoing excavations at Vindolanda, a Roman fort near Hadrian's Wall.

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Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to Vindolanda
4:41 The wooden underworld
7:13 Layers of history
9:03 Becoming part of the story

[simonorch]

I was one of the volunteers in the background. After filming was done we uncovered a wax writing tablet in my section of the site, I think it was the first of the season.

[Hilqy]

Love to see how much they truly enjoy their work, can wait to see more discoveries from this site

[MGBait]

I visited Vindolanda almost two decades ago and I loved it. Now I'm kicking myself I didn't ask the excavators on-site questions.

[thefunkychicken]

What a terrific video. Thanks for bringing us into your world and sharing your knowledge.

[mjribes]

I'm walking the wall with my 9-year-old son next week and we plan to stop off at Vindolanda. Can't wait!

[Andy-ftjf]

I swear you are my favourite youtuber! Thank you for this extremely valuable content!

[rickb]

I was waiting for my Friday dose of toldinstone

[ericatlas]

Drove down all the way from Edinburgh earlier this year via Jedburgh...was raining like always..

[TrevorD]

I hope you enjoyed the time over there. The weather here in chicagoland is poop.

[procrastinator]

“Oooh Dennis, there’s some lovely filth over’ere”

[Psychol-Snooper]

Teachers told us
The Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple on the edge of the
Empire garrison town
They lived and they died
They prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled
Till all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

[waveydavey]

I'd go but I was there last Sunday.

[scoon]

Toldinstone has sent me down more rabbit holes than anyone lol.

[mwalako]

Or maybe the women had a lot more shoes?

[simplepixel]

I would give anything in this world to do a day of work there and help to excavate. Unfortunately I'm not an archeologist :(

[mariadespina]

BANNA ! The Dacians Fort on the wall of Hadrian. Banna-Birdoswald, Britannia-UK.
BANNA - In Northumbria - the largest and oldest fort of the sixteen inscribed along the wall, the best preserved, with most vestiges, the only inhabited, and after the breakdown of the Roman empire, long after, by the descendants of those soldiers coming from Dacia . Banna! ... Birdoswald, as the Englishmen baptized it .
This fortress was built and inhabited by 1000 soldiers from COHORS I AELIA DACORUM , recruited by the Roman Emperor Hadrian from Dacia ( actual Romania) at 120-125 AC, to fight against Scottish, Iuti and Picti from the north. After the Dacian wars (101-102 and 105-106), the Roman Empire used Dacian cohorts (military units of 500-1000 soldiers) throughout the Empire, archaeological discoveries pointing to their presence both in the United Kingdom today and in Turkey .
'' '' They were remarkable warriors. They fought without fear of death and died laughing because they believed that their souls were immortal. The title "Aelia" itself was a great honor, for it derives from the entire name of Emperor Hadrian, a name that could be won only because of a military or cultural service out of the ordinary. At first they were sent to the Wall, in an outpost called Bewcastle, to fight first with the barbarian tribes. Send somehow to the sacrifice. At a fort located in an open, wilderness, without a wall, without forests, without anything around. That, precisely because they knew their courage and devotion in the fight. They were supposed to die, but they did not die. Then they came here to Banna, and they lived here until the end. They got lands, rights, ranks. They have remained forever there in their city. Yes. They were undoubtedly among the best fighters brought here to fight at Hadrian's wall. These are facts, certainties, "says
the archaeologist Robin Birley ''', British archaeologist Director of Excavations at the Roman site of Vindolanda and head of the Vindolanda research committee .
The Dacians, the Romanians ancestors..