. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. CELTIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH HERTFORDSHIRE ; In 1905 Mr. Charles H. Ashdown excavated a fragment of a house in the north-west corner of Vineyard Field which showed portions of two pavements, one plain red and the other red with a Hghter red band.*" Numerous fragments of walls and pavements have been found from time to time in ploughing and digging, but no further excavations have been systematically attempted. Innumerable coins have been found on the site from British to early Byzantine and mediaeval. Of Roman coin
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. CELTIC AND ROMANO-BRITISH HERTFORDSHIRE ; In 1905 Mr. Charles H. Ashdown excavated a fragment of a house in the north-west corner of Vineyard Field which showed portions of two pavements, one plain red and the other red with a Hghter red band.*" Numerous fragments of walls and pavements have been found from time to time in ploughing and digging, but no further excavations have been systematically attempted. Innumerable coins have been found on the site from British to early Byzantine and mediaeval. Of Roman coins perhaps the commonest are those of the 3rd century. Antiquities of various kinds have frequently been discovered, but records of them have seldom been kept. Roman pottery is of course constantly being turned up but has not been systematically classified. Two small bronze female figures some 3 in. high have been found (PI. xi), and Dr. Stukeley mentions ' a little brass lar or genius alatus' from Verulamium, in the collec- tion of Sir Robert Cornwall.'* According to Roman practice the cemeteries lay along the roads outside the towns. In the case of Verulamium three groups of burials have been discovered, one along the line of Watling Street, a second to the. 7: sv. 6'. 10' BED OF MORTAR LONGITUDINAL n 12 6 O I SECTION 1 .1 —1- -I p «—I1I0»— B CROSS sEcnon 7 -J scale qf feet Roman Srick Grave Found in Verulam Hill Field south-west of St. Albans Abbey, unconnected as far as we know with any Roman road, and a third associated with the road going north-east from Verulamium, probably to Braughing and Colchester. There is, as yet, no record of the discovery of burials outside the town along the roads leading north-west and south-west. With regard to the first group, both cinerary urns and burials by inhumation have been found in the field called Verulam Hill Field belonging to Mr. Charles WooUam, , to the south-east of the Roman town. In 1877 there was discovered a recta
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