🏛️ Alchester-Verulamium
Romano-British settlement remains in Hertfordshire
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- Location: Near St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
- Period: 1st–3rd century CE (Romano-British)
- Status: Scheduled Ancient Monument; partly excavated, mostly unexcavated
- Access: Limited; on private land and under pasture
Alchester (Verulamium II, also called Verulanium Minor) was a Romano-British settlement established in the 1st century CE near present-day St Albans in Hertfordshire. The site represents a secondary settlement within the broader Verulamium territory, occupied during the Roman occupation of Britain. Archaeological investigation has been sporadic, and much of the site remains unexcavated beneath agricultural land ...