The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses IV, Part 3): New Letters of Iulius Verecundus

Bowman, Alan K.; Thomas, J. David; Tomlin, R. S. O.

doi:10.1017/s0068113x19000321

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“…Vindolanda, a Roman auxiliary fort situated south of Hadrian’s Wall near Bardon Mill, Northumberland UK, is a site known for its excellent preservation of leather and wooden artefacts 1 , 2 . Exquisite wooden artefacts include the Vindolanda writing tablets showing the correspondence of Iulius Verecundus 3 , Prefect of the First Cohort of Tungrians, dated to between first and second centuries. The extensive assemblage of leather artefacts, especially shoes is one of the largest discovered on any Roman site, but Vindolanda has also provided the discovery of the oldest Roman boxing gloves c.a.…”

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Unique chemical parameters and microbial activity lead to increased archaeological preservation at the Roman frontier site of Vindolanda, UK

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Williams

Halldórsdóttir

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Waterlogged burial conditions impact upon artefact preservation. One major determinant of preservation is presence and behaviour of microorganisms, however, unravelling the mechanisms, especially in waterlogged conditions is challenging. In this study, we analysed elemental composition, bacterial diversity and community structure from excavation trenches at the Roman Site of Vindolanda, Northumberland, UK, using pXRF and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Excavation trenches provide information of different occupation periods. The results indicated that microbial communities were dominated by Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes and Proteobacteria at a phylum level. Samples which also had visible vivianite presence showed that there were marked increases in Methylophilus. Methylophilus might be associated with favourable preservation in these anaerobic conditions. More research is needed to clearly link the presence of Methylophilus with vivianite production. The study emphasises the need for further integration of chemical and microbiome approaches, especially in good preservation areas, to explore microbial and chemical degradation mechanisms.

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Unique chemical parameters and microbial activity lead to increased archaeological preservation at the Roman frontier site of Vindolanda, UK

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Halldórsdóttir

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“…The main linguistic interest of the four tablets published in this volume (Bowman, Thomas and Tomlin 2019) is lexical, but there are a few noteworthy syntactic features. Some additions to the lexica have turned up, and also some established terms display new semantic developments.…”

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