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Why was vindolanda built?

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18y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Vindolanda was one of a series of Roman forts built in northern England in the last quarter of the 1st Century AD. The forts stretched from east to west, and are considered to have been a consolidation of the frontier of the Roman Empire. Roman armies had advanced far into Scotland in the 70s AD. But either by choice or necessity, they abandoned these gains and formed a frontier stretching roughly from modern Newcastle in the east to modern Carlisle in the west. The forts, together with the east-west road now known as the Stanegate connecting them, formed this frontier for 40 years. Then Hadrian's Wall was built just to the north, and the Stanegate forts either went out of use or changed their purpose. Vindolanda remained in use, though the ultimate purpose of its garrison (whether support for the Wall forts or protection in an unruly hinterland) isn't fully understood.

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