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Excavations at Verulamium, 1961. Seventh and Final Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

S. S. Frere
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Two small-scale excavations were carried out at Verulamium during 1961. In January it became necessary to explore the site about to be occupied by the museum extension, and several trenches were cut on the north-east and south-east sides of the existing museum building. It was not possible in the time and with the resources available to excavate down to natural soil, but only to examine those layers due for removal by the builders. Considerable depths of deposit are known to exist here, possibly filling an early ditch. The site lies in the west corner of Insula XVIII: the earliest structure reached was a timber-framed building, burnt down possibly c. A.D. 155. This was succeeded by an Antonine masonry building with channel hypocausts. Possibly c. A.D. 300 this building was enlarged by encroachment on the street frontages. It clearly extends some way outside the area excavated both towards east and south. The character of the structure is domestic.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , September 1962 , pp. 148 - 159
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1962

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page 148 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xx, 502; ibid, xxxvii, 9–10.

page 148 note 2 See plan of area, Antiq. Journ. xli, 73; fig. 2, below, is inaccurate in this respect.

page 148 note 3 St. Albans and Herts. A. and A. Soc. Trans.1961, 36. See also plan in Antiq. Journ. xli, 73.

page 150 note 1 The samian has been examined by Mr. B. R. Hartley, F.S.A.

page 150 note 2 Antiq. Journ. xxxvii, 4–6; cf. ibid, xxxviii, 2–4.

page 150 note 3 Ibid, xl, 4–6.

page 150 note 4 Ibid, xli, 79 and fig. 1.

page 151 note 1 Ibid, xxxvi, pl. iv; ibid, xli, 81, fig. 4 and pl. xxv.

page 153 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xxxvii, pl. VI.

page 153 note 2 Ibid, xxxvii, 14: cf. ibid, xli, 73, fig. 1.

page 153 note 3 Ibid, xxxviii, 2–4.

page 154 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xxxviii, pl. v; ibid, xli, pl. xxi b, and p. 73, fig. 1.

page 156 note 1 R. E. M. and T. V. Wheeler, Verulamium, A Belgic and Two Roman Cities, 77, with pls. xxvi, xcii, and cxx.

page 156 note 2 Ibid., p. xxvi. In fig. 2, above, it is wrongly shown a little too far to the south.

page 156 note 3 Antiq. Journ. xli, 80–82.

page 156 note 4 Ibid, xxxvi, 5–6; Corder, Arch. Journ. cxii, 20–25; and see footnote 5 below.

page 156 note 5 Which I now date c. A.D. 160, see Frere, ‘Verulamium Then and Now’ University of London Institute of Archaeology Bulletin forthcoming. This attempt to surround the enlarged town with a new defence was never completed (op. cit.) which may be the reason why these arches were not erected earlier than they were.

page 156 note 6 J.R.S. xxiii, 149–74.

page 156 note 7 Revue Archéologique,4 vi (1905), 219 ff.Google Scholar

page 157 note 1 C.I.L. viii, 210.

page 157 note 2 Cf. the arch of the Sergii at Pola which measures 30 ft. by 8 ft. in plan: but this arch is only ‘a thin facade or ornamental screen’ behind the city-gate. Richmond, J.R.S. xxiii, 151 and plan, fig. 2.

page 157 note 3 Grenier, Manuel, i, 569, fig. 223; C.I.L. xii, 1036.

page 157 note 4 Ibid. 555–7 and fig. 216; cf. J.R.S. xxiii, 168, note 84.

page 157 note 5 J.R.S. xxiii, 165, fig. 9 and pl. XVIII, 2.

page 157 note 6 I am much indebted to my wife who made these drawings and discussed the problems with me.