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Phase
85–370 CE
Vindolanda was established south of the later line of Hadrian’s Wall and formed part of the Roman military presence in northern Britain. Its forts, civilian settlement and successive phases of occupation show how the frontier developed before and after the wall.
Goldsworthy’s Vindolanda trilogy turns the fort into the base for Flavius Ferox’s work among Roman troops and northern tribes. In fiction, intelligence, policing, diplomacy, fort life, local resistance and the practical burdens of imperial control can move to the foreground.
Series
The Vindolanda series follows Flavius Ferox, a Briton serving Rome as a centurion on the northern frontier of Britannia before Hadrian’s Wall was built. The trilogy combines Roman military life, frontier diplomacy, tribal politics, murder investigation and rebellion around the fort at Vindolanda.
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