Vindolanda Charitable Trust

Coming to Vindolanda, 17 October – 2 November: VOTUM  

A contemporary new artwork by David Appleyard.  

Commissioned with support from the John Ellerman Foundation, Arts Council England and Newcastle University. 🙏

We’ve collaborated with amazing people to make this happen.

Keep up to date with our Vindolanda excavation progress by watching our latest video update from the site ⬇️

Vindolanda Excavations 2025: Video Update #6
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Great photo! Looking forward to having you back with us.

Magna Roman fort excavations on Hadrian's Wall, part of the @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and where i'll be excavating the next two weeks. #archaeology #Roman #Hadrianswall

Amateur archaeologists unearth winged goddess at Hadrian’s Wall Exclusive: Married volunteer diggers discover stone relief at site of Roman fort Vindolanda in Northumberland

Vindolanda excavations are in the news.

Victory for volunteers who discover winged goddess.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

YouTube video by VindolandaTrust Vindolanda Excavations 2025: Video Diary #3

Vindolanda Excavations | 📣 Video update #3

Our third video update from the Vindolanda excavations is now available to watch on our YouTube channel ⬇️ Find out our latest news from the site.

Vindolanda Excavations 2025: Video Diary #3
youtu.be/sUM2kOT6RSc

An original Roman leather horse mask in the foreground with a reconstructed horse head in the rear

#FindsFriday Rounding off my brief tour of Hadrian's Wall with @vindolandatrust.bsky.social this morning - saving the best 'til last 🤩👌

A world-class site museum & stunning Roman fort complex

Great to finally meet Dr Andrew Birley & @petesavin.bsky.social 👋

📷 Ceremonial horse head mask (chamfron)

Once you start looking you see them…everywhere!

We are looking into it! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

Friday update.. all week in the lab so looking forward to some fresh air at the weekend. Had a chance to look at the new entrance last weekend at @vindolandatrust.bsky.social fantastic stuff showing ongoing research impact @teessideuni.bsky.social

A large display case with over 20 different wooden artefacts excavated from Vindolanda including most obviously a wooden spade made from a single piece of wood. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024

Another display case in the Wood gallery at the Chesterholm Museum at Vindolanda - with many more wooden artefacts including parts of large wooden vessels, and several smaller utensils- with a beautiful backdrop of a Roman women illustrated on the rear wall of the case. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024.

The display board about dendrochronology showing four segments of timber with overlapping ring patterns demonstrating the principle of how a tree-ring chronology is constructed. Photo copyright Coralie Mills 2024.

Me standing in front of one of the displays about dendro-dating at Vindolanda - with a lovely disk tree-ring sample behind my head - looks a bit like a halo 😇. I’m not that good really 🤣. Photo copyright Gordon Turnbull 2024

Visiting Vindolanda Fort last year opened my eyes to appreciating Roman archaeology. Not least because their Museum has a whole gallery dedicated to wooden finds from the site and a great display about #dendrochronology

Big thumbs up to @Vindolandatrust.bsky.social

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

We have a new temporary exhibition at our Roman Army Museum all about the construction of Roman shoes.
We love Roman shoes!
Our museums open on Saturday 15th February. #RomanArmyMuseum #Shoes

Roman Vindolanda | On TV 📺

Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes is back on our screens tonight (BBC2, 6:30pm) and in the first episode of the new series Robson brings his good friend and on screen wife Kacey Ainsworth to Vindolanda. You can also catch it on BBC iPlayer

Video Premiere: Johnny Campbell – Roving I Will Go Watch the video for ‘Roving I Will Go’ from Johnny Campbell, celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Pennine Way, which Johnny will be touring in the spring.

In April we will transform our Vindolanda cafe into a music venue when we welcome Johnny Campbell as part of his epic Pennine Way tour. Tickets available, find out more ⬇️

klofmag.com/2025/01/vide...

Sadly it was a short lived reopening today. No power. Closed again.

It really was windy yesterday!
Thankfully no damage sustained and back open (site only) today at Vindolanda.

📣 Job opportunity | Archaeological Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the team at our Magna excavation this year on as an archaeological assistant. Please share. Deadline to apply 31st Jan. Please share.

Details in the link below ⬇️.
www.vindolanda.com/work-for-us

The snow and ice are gone (for the moment) and our Vindolanda archaeological site is back open! We have a daily site tours at 11am. Come along for a winter roam around the site.

www.vindolanda.com/Event/vindol...

We’ve got a few Vindolanda snow pics! (Many, many snow pics!)

New year, new online courses! Starting Wednesday 15th January, 'Hadrian's Wall', by Dr Matt Symonds.

This six week course uses new archaeological discoveries to explore this famous Roman frontier and its communities. For more information visit:
www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event...

Roman Vindolanda under a winter blanket ❄️
Send socks!
#Vindolanda

Snow day at Roman Vindolanda.
#Vindolanda

Our first beautiful big blue sky day of 2025! Here’s hoping for many more!

Happy New Year from Roman Vindolanda.

A pink sunrise behind replica section of Hadrian’s Wall at Vindolanda.

The last day of 2024 at Roman Vindolanda. Thank you to everyone who has supported the work of The Vindolanda Trust this year. We wish you all a fortunate and happy New Year.
#Vindolanda #HappyNewYear #Hadrianswall #Northumberland

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas from the Vindolanda Trust team 🎄
#Merrychristmas # Vindolanda

“Io Saturnalia” | Let the celebrations commence!

The Roman festival Saturnalia was celebrated from 17th to 23rd December and included feasting, decorating the house with holly and exchanging small gifts.

Read more about Saturnalia in our blog ⬇️

www.vindolanda.com/blog/saturna...

We keep them in special store with the hippo-sandals!

School trip to Vindolanda (Northumberland) today, we were lucky with the weather! Its an old roman fort / village

Roman Vindolanda in the winter sunshine

A blue sky moment above Vindolanda. 💙