ISBN10: 0714113735, ISBN13: 9780714113739, [publisher: British Museum Press] Softcover Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
[Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1983]
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British Museum, London, Date: 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 48 pages. Illustrated throughout. THERE IS MORE THAN ONE PICTURE OF THIS ITEM TO SHOW YOU MORE DETAILS. Size: 19 x 25 cms. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Varied Books; ISBN: 0714113735. ISBN/EAN: 9780714113739. Inventory No: 513947.. 9780714113739 1983. British Museum ISBN 0714113735 9780714113739 [GB]

ISBN10: 0714113735, ISBN13: 9780714113739, [publisher: London : British Museum Publications] Softcover 48 p. ; Ill. Age-induced discolorations on cover, otherwise in very good condition. - INTRODUCTION--In the spring of 1973, excavations directed by Mr Robin Birley at the Roman fort of Vindolanda (modern Chesterholm), close to Hadrian’s Wall, brought to light the first of a remarkable series of more than two hundred wooden writing tablets. As the oldest group of written documents known from Britain, they comprise a discovery of first-rate historical importance. It seems that the tablets were deposited between about ad 95 and 105—a decade or two before work began on the construction of Hadrian’s Wall—and consist mainly of letters, accounts and other material relating to the administration of the fort. As such, they provide us with an extraordinary insight into the life of the times, seen both from the point of view of senior officers and from that of more humble soldiers. Here are stock-checks on supplies; personal letters of recommendation; the record of a gift of fifty oysters; and even the description of a parcel from home containing socks, sandals and two pairs of underpants! When taken in conjunction with references to people and to places, they are a source of information hitherto unparalleled in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, and thus form a major addition to the National collections of the British Museum.--Most of the tablets consist of thin ...
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