Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its people by Alan K. Bowman

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Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its people by Alan K. BowmanISBN: 9780714122465 British Museum Press,26 January 2004 Paperback, 192 pages "Clodius Super to his Cerialis, greetings. I ask that you send the things which I need for the use of my boys which you well know I cannot properly get hold of here" So writes a Roman soldier stationed on the wild northern frontier of England around AD 100. In 1973, the first discoveries were made of the now famous wooden tablets 300 letters and documents that had survived

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