Robin Edgar Birley OBE (19 January 1935 – 29 August 2018)[1] was a British archaeologist.
These are a series of wooden tablets containing handwritten script, which continue to be discovered at the site.
For a time this was the oldest known handwritten script in Britain, although the Bloomberg tablets discovered in the 21st century are older.
The Vindolanda tablets have been translated from the Latin and have been published in print and online (as texts and images).
[3] He published extensively on the Vindolanda site and appeared in several TV documentaries, including the 2003 BBC production of Our Top Ten Treasures.