Vindolanda tablets
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title:
Vindolanda tablets
text:
The Vindolanda tablets are some 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 fragments of thin, postcard-sized wooden leaf-tablets with carbon-based ink, the tablets date to the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Although similar records on papyrus were known from elsewhere in the Roman Empire, wooden tablets with ink text had not been recovered until 1973, when archaeologist Robin Birley, his
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Roman writing tablets found in England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda_tablets
date created:
2006-10-08T15:47:07Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T17:03:00Z
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