Editing Vindolanda (section)

==Garrison==
Archaeological excavations of the site show it was under Roman occupation from roughly 85 AD to 370 AD.<ref name="Birley40" /><ref name=":0" />
The [[garrison]] consisted of [[infantry]] or [[cavalry]] {{lang|la|[[auxilia]]}}, not components of [[Roman legion]]s. From the early third century, this was the [[Cohors IV Gallorum equitata]] also known as the Fourth Cohort of Gauls. It had been presumed that this title was, by this time, purely nominal, with auxiliary troops being recruited locally but an inscription found in a recent season of excavations suggests that native Gauls were still to be found in the regiment and that they liked to distinguish themselves from British soldiers.<ref name="Selkirk">{{cite journal | last1 = Selkirk | first1 = A | year = 2006 | title = A ritual statue from Vindolanda | journal = Current Archaeology | volume = 205 | pages = 4–5 }}</ref> The inscription reads:
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CIVES GALLI<br />
DE GALLIAE<br />
CONCORDES<br />
QUE BRITANNI}}
A translation of this is "The troops from Gaul dedicate this statue to the goddess [[Gallia (goddess)|Gallia]] with the full support of the British-born troops".<ref name="Selkirk"/>

Among the troops were Basque-speaking soldiers of the [[Varduli]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/vindolandas-cavalry-cache-uncovered.htm|title=Vindolanda's cavalry cache uncovered|date=28 September 2017}}</ref>