It was way back in April that we visited the Roman camp at Vindolanda, as you can see from the photo above it’s still a very rural and scenic part of the country.

There are still excavations ongoing here but the photo below is of a replica gateway, to give an idea of what it would have looked like when the Romans were here.

Below is a model of the whole camp which is in the on site museum.

Some of the remains that have been dug out look quite well preserved as you can see below.

Below you can see the remains of a hypocaust, their heating system. They had all ‘mod cons’ those Romans in Britain, they needed it as it’s a really cold area of England, in the autumn and winter.

They’ve built a replica temple which is well situated by the wee river, a good place to rest and have a coffee.

You can read about Vindolanda here and here. The Romans were in this area of North East England (Northumberland) from around 85 AD to 370 AD.