This article contains full editions with commentaries of the second and final instalment of the approximately 37 ink writing-tablets from Vindolanda discovered in the excavation seasons of 2001, 2002 and 2003. The editions are numbered continuously from 870, following the sequence in Tab. Vindol. IV.1, and are grouped in the following categories: Military Document, Letters, Descripta.
he text published here was found in 1994 during excavation at 1 Poultry in the City of London (TQ 3258 8110), on the north side of the main east-west road of Roman London just west of the Walbrook stream, in a layer of debris which postdated the destruction of a roadside building in a late Flavian fire. 1 It is only the second stilus-tablet 'page' from London to have been read almost in full. 2 It is a formal and formulaic text but, to a modern reader, its legal language makes this human document still more disquieting.
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