Roman towns and cities: St Albans – Excavating the CA archive

To conclude my mini-series on the towns of Roman Britain, I will head to what may be the most famous Romano-British city of all: Verulamium, modern-day St Albans. With much of the city surviving, unexcavated, beneath modern-day park- and farmland, and upstanding elements visible alongside the award-winning museum that was founded by Tessa Verney Wheeler and Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s (see CA 211 and 216, September 2007 and March 2008, for more on their work at the site, and here of this issue for more on Tessa), there is much to see there and a long history of reporting by the magazine. Saints and Sinners Current Archaeology’s coverage of Verulamium commences in unexpected circums