Verulanium Museum St Albans

[Philoromaos]

Spent a couple of day's down in Portsmouth with my partner at the beginning of the week and decided to call in here on the way back as it was right next the M1 on the route we took. I would highly recomend a visit here if you can make it. While the museum isn't huge they have a vast amout of artifacts on display. The amount of coins they have out is huge, if you check out the photos I've below this is only a fraction of the coins on display. There are also some nice mosaics on display.


Adrian

[apgrassman]

Thanks for the info, havent been for a while myself but a nice museum, within the grounds of the old roman town, St Albans Abbey and of course the "Old Fighting Cocks" used to be a real ale house, allegedly the oldest pub in the UK, a long with a few others around the country but plenty to see.

regards

apgrassman

[Rich Beale]

I've often passed by St Albans but never stopped. That's a lovely Domitian sestertius.. perhaps I shall indeed pay the museum a visit yet!

[PeterD]

Don't miss the Abbey. It's built on a hill overlooking Verulamium and and is the site of the beheading of the first British Christian martyr, Saint Alban. His shrine is in the Abbey. The execution is believed to have been either during the reign of Diocletian or Septimius Severus.

[Retrospectator]

When visiting do not forget to check out the Roman theatre and the Roman town house hypocaust mosaic in the park. There are also some impressive stretches of Roman wall on the southern side of the city where Watling Street entered it. The small lake in the park lies outside what would have been the Roman city, and is the site of a Roman cemetery. No amphitheatre has yet been discovered here although I reckon there was one particularly when one thinks that Verulamium was the third largest city in Roman Britain! So much of this city is yet to be excavated.