A large & growing collection of information & resources by WeDig'ers for WeDig'ers. Click & explore!

What is Vindolanda? Pages here offer an introduction to the site & its history, the museums, local climate & area amenities.

Vindolanda was built & rebuilt a dozen times. This section will help unravel & explain the various periods, so you know better what you're seeing/digging. Also included is a fun rollover that helps you see all 12 different periods progress, on one page.

Vindolanda was one part of a vast empire; the pages here will help put Vindolanda in its context. Why did it exist? Why & how did its role change over time?

Do you want to learn more about what you may find? What daily life in a Roman fort was like? What the local resources were? The pages in this section introduce you to Roman coinage & pottery, the geology of the area, the animals that lived here nearly 2,000 years ago, and more.

You've probably read up on the "major" area sites. But the region is filled with fascinating & off-beat locations. Each tells part of the 2,000-year story of Tynedale and its surrounds. Romans, reivers, religion, industry -- dig deeper!