Outer face of the two-mile-long Roman wall built AD265-70 to defend the city of Verulamium (St Albans), England, UK: view W of the SE wall.

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View W of outer face of the two-mile-long Roman wall built AD265-70 to defend the city of Verulamium (St Albans), England, UK. The first Roman settlement was founded here c AD49 at a crossing of the river Vere just NE of the tribal capital of the Catuvellauni. In the C3rdAD Verulamium had become the third largest Romano-British town: some 200 acres within stone walls. The dressed facing flints have been removed revealing the core of mortared flints with brick bonding layers. This stretch of the S wall runs W from the site of the London Gate on Watling Street which linked London to the SE with Chester (Deva) to the NW.

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Size: 3739px × 4978px
Location: Verulamium Roman Wall, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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