It appears the North-South divide was a thing even 2,000 year ago! The Vindolanda Trust collections are amongst the finest in Europe and include many recently unearthed artefacts from the ongoing live archaeology located a short distance from Hadrian’s Wall.

And it’s through the archaeology including the incredible Vindolanda writing tablets (Britain’s top treasure as voted by the British Museum), that Studio MB were able to reveal the amazing stories of hundreds of known military and civilian people, living out real lives, on the northern frontier, 2,000 years ago.

The interior and exterior interpretation takes the visitor on a journey explaining these ‘Frontier Lives’ both military (on duty and off duty) and domestic. These central themes examine the life and times of a foreign occupying army and the civilian settlement that grew up around its presence. The messages explore garrison duties, training, health, pay, conditions, equipment, diet, clothing, family, race and religion.