Historical

Vindolanda

By Ari Weaver

It's September, AD 101, at a timber fort on a wet hill in northern Britain, twenty years before anyone builds Hadrian's Wall. Eight hundred Dutch-born soldiers live here on bad beer and letters from home. The commander's wife is planning a birthday lunch for her best friend while the village brewer waters the beer. You've just walked in through the south gate with your posting papers going soft in the rain.

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