🏛️ Lactodorum-Verulamium
Romano-British settlement and road station in Hertfordshire
📌 Fast Facts
- Located near Watling Street, the major Roman road connecting London and the Midlands
- Occupied from the 1st to 4th century CE during Roman Britain
- Name derives from Latin for "milk fort" or refers to a local water source
- Archaeological evidence indicates a small vicus (settlement) with military and civilian occupation phases
Lactodorum was a modest Romano-British settlement positioned along Watling Street (modern A5), serving as a waystation and supply point for the Roman road network. The site lay in what is now Hertfordshire, between the larger settlements of Verulamium (St Albans) to the south and Towcester to the north. Archaeological investigation has revealed stratified deposits spanning several centuries of Roman occupation, though the site never developed into a major urban centre ...