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Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England. The major ancient Roman route Watling Street passed through the city, but was realigned in medieval times to bring trade to St Albans. It was about a day's walk from London.
The Verulamium Forum Inscription (tentatively dated to AD 79, during the reign of the emperor Titus) is one of the many Roman inscriptions in Britain. It is also known as the "Basilica inscription", as it is believed to have been attached to the basilica of Verulamium (on the edge of modern St Albans). [1]
Looking across the Roman theatre towards St Michael's Church, St Albans. The Roman Theatre at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England is an excavated site within the Roman walled city of Verulamium. Although there are other Roman theatres in Britain (for example at Camulodunum), the one at Verulamium is claimed to be the only example of its kind ...
The Hypocaust Museum is a museum at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Situated in Verlamium Park, the museum provides in situ conservation and interpretation of a hypocaust within the walled city of Verulamium. The system heated residential accommodation built around 200 CE. [1] Unlike the hypocaust at Welwyn, it appears not to be linked to baths.
Verulamium Park is a park in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Set in over 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of parkland, Verulamium Park was purchased from the Earl of Verulam in 1929 by the then City Corporation. Today the park is owned and operated by St Albans City and District Council. The park is named after the Roman city of Verulamium on which it stands ...
St Albans Museums is a collection of museums and historic buildings in the city of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England [1] that is run by St Albans City and District Council. [2] It oversees St Albans Museum + Gallery and the Verulamium Museum, [2] and also the Hypocaust Museum at Verulamium, St Albans' medieval Clock Tower, and the ruins of ...
The location of the tomb of Saint Alban that Germanus visited is most often thought to have been Verulamium, now St Albans. That is on the basis of what is in fact the earliest mention of the martyr Alban in an indigenous British source, in the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae probably written in the second quarter of the fifth century, [ 33 ...
Verulam House was a building in St Albans, built by Francis Bacon to supplement his family home of Gorhambury. [1] The main source describing it is John Aubrey's Brief Lives (1669-1696). [2] It was named after Verulamium, the ancient Roman city of St Albans, though it was not sited within that city's walls as Aubrey asserted. [3]