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Verulamium

St Albans, Hertfordshire

A Roman city with the only visible Roman theatre in Britain.

Verulamium was one of the largest towns in Roman Britain. Boudicca burned it in AD 60 or 61, but it was rebuilt.

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When
From AD 50
Where
51.7500, -0.3550
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

Verulamium Museum and the Roman theatre are open daily.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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