Verulamium - St Albans

LiDAR – Verulamium – St Albans - Hertfordshire DTM- (Digital Terrain Model, i.e. No buildings or foliage) To the north of London lies the city of St Albans. Directly west of the city sits Verulamium Park. This was the Roman city of Verulamium (originally Verlamio, a pre-Roman town) and was part-excavated between 1930 & 1949. The Amphitheatre remains extant and central to the park. The Verulamium Museum is seriously impressive with sections of painted wall plaster and mosaic tiles rivalling those at Pompeii. Raised to the ground in the Boudica revolts of AD60-61, as recorded by Tacitus where she rode up the Roman road, Watling Street (A5183 & A5) from the sacking of Londinium. Rebuilt 15 years later under Vespasian. Abandoned in the late 5th century AD. The site was much robbed of its stonework in antiquity. For me, the outworks to the NW of the Park stand out on the LiDAR as well as the radiating Roman roads running south of Gorhambury house & grounds. (Scheduled Monument)