ABSTRACT
The waxed wooden tablet on which the note was written was discarded only to be discovered in excavations in the heart of the city of London and published in June 2016. This and the 406 other Bloomberg tablets contain the earliest pieces of writing to be discovered in Roman Britain. The world of the New Testament and the world of Roman Britain are enclosed within that ring: from Corinth to Colchester, people shared elements of a common culture. A total of 405 waxed stylus writing tablets, together with 2 stylus tags and 2 ink writing tablets were discovered during excavations carried out by the Museum of London Archaeology on the site of the new European headquarters for Bloomberg LP between 2010-2014. From the Vindolanda tablets it is clear that women not only have a part to play in the life of a fort but also that through their literacy they can bring pressure to bear on those in authority.
