12-01-2007, 01:34 PM
Hello Sharon
Jim is talking about the Vindolanda writing tablets. Some of them are available online at
www.vindolanda.csad.ox.uk
However almost any publication dealing with Vindolanda will mention the tablet about the socks. Actually a personal letter from a soldier thanking his family for gifts including socks and underpants.
Vindolanda was a fort built before Hadrian's Wall at the end of the first century AD. However it was rebuilt several times over the years eventually in the early third century in stone. The documents come from the early phase when there was a timber fort.
Nevertheless in spite of the discovery of hundreds of leather boots and shoes no classic caligae have ever been found there. Instead there are different types of cut out designs and enclosed boots.
Graham.
Jim is talking about the Vindolanda writing tablets. Some of them are available online at
www.vindolanda.csad.ox.uk
However almost any publication dealing with Vindolanda will mention the tablet about the socks. Actually a personal letter from a soldier thanking his family for gifts including socks and underpants.
Vindolanda was a fort built before Hadrian's Wall at the end of the first century AD. However it was rebuilt several times over the years eventually in the early third century in stone. The documents come from the early phase when there was a timber fort.
Nevertheless in spite of the discovery of hundreds of leather boots and shoes no classic caligae have ever been found there. Instead there are different types of cut out designs and enclosed boots.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
