View E of part of the two-mile-long Roman wall built AD265-70 to defend the city of Verulamium, England, UK. St Albans Cathedral on hill to rear.
View E of part of the two-mile-long Roman wall built AD265-70 to defend the city of Verulamium, England, UK. St Albans Cathedral on hill to rear. 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 strengthening bands (bonding layers) of brick. The cathedral is dedicated to Alban, a Roman soldier & Britain's first Christian martyr who was beheaded on the hill in AD209.
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Location: Verulamium Roman Wall, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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