St Albans Roman Town Tour - Roman Theatre, Hypocaust, Roman Town Wall and Verulamium Museum.
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- St Albans in Hertfordshire is a must see destination for visitors interested in Roman Britain. Verulamium as the city was called in Roman times, boasts the only remaining Roman theatre in Roman Britain, an outstanding collection of mosaics and finds on display in the museum, well-preserved sections of the city walls and a hypocaust in situ under a mosaic floor. Today the remains of Verulamium are mostly located in a beautiful public park. My film takes you on a full tour around the theatre, the city walls, hypocaust and the museum.
Reasons to visit St Albans:
• Only Roman Theatre in Roman Britain.
• Well preserved Roman city walls.
• Award winning Roman Verulamium Museum.
• Best Roman wall paintings to have survived in Britain
• Outstanding collection of over 40 Roman mosaic floors.
• Hundreds of Roman artefacts.
• Verulamium Venus figure.
• In situ hypocaust beneath a fine mosaic floor.
• Third largest city in Roman Britain.
The sites of Roman St Albans are located in and around the tranquil Verulamium park, so it is only a short walk to all of the sites shown in the film. The film features:
1:21:15 St Albans’ Roman Theatre
4:24:21 Roman Arch Remains
5:11:01 Shops and Roman Town House
5:47:22 Hypocaust and mosaic floor
7:39 St Alban’s Roman Town Wall
11:41:09 Verulamium Museum
The History bit -
The Romans established the settlement of St Albans shortly after the invasion in AD43, close to the capital of the Catuvellauni tribe. The town was completely destroyed during the revolt led by Boudicca in AD 60-1. Verulamium was rebuilt between AD 70 - 100. It became the third largest town in Roman Britain. The town included a Forum with a basilica, public baths, temples, many prosperous private townhouses and a theatre. Verulamium was an important town in Roman Britain for four hundred years until the end of the Roman occupation. It was granted municipium status, a self-governing community and it’s citizens were granted latin rights. The city wall was built between 265 and 270 AD of mortared flint rubble with layers of brick bonding. It was faced with dressed flints, though little of the facing remains. St Albans is the location of the first British matyr after whom it was named.
Information -
St Albans is 20 miles north of London. If you visit by car you can park next to the museum. There are toilet facilities in the car park. All places shown in my film are a short walking distance from the car park. The car park is located where part of the Roman Forum once stood. During your visit grab some lunch at the Inn on the Park which I can recommend.
Roman Theatre website
www.gorhamburyestate.co.uk/Th...
Verulamium Museum
www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/vi...
The Hypocaust
www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/vis...
Inn on the Park
www.inn-on-the-park.com/
To Visit
Car Park address: Verulamium, St Michaels Street, St Albans, AL3 4SW
Music credits:
All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds
To All the Glory by Howard Harper-Barnes
• To All the Glory
Brought to Rome by Francis Wells
• Brought to Rome
Deep Blue Delta Sinus by OOkean
• Deep Blue Delta Sinus
Morning Comes by Mochas
• Mochas - Morning Comes
Lost Thoughts by Hanna Lindgren
• Hanna Lindgren - Lost ...
Troubled Lines by Alfie Jay Winters
• Troubled Lines
Indulgence by Alec Slayne
• Indulgence
The Traveller by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
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The future can only be understood if we respect and understand the past !
Great video, I must go to see it myself, I have been to St Albans many times but didn't know about the Roman museum or the wall.
Lived in St. Albans the 17 years I've been alive, moving to Canada on Friday. Seen all the Roman sites apart from this one, gotta see it before I leave.
went to the theatre yesterday it was great and there was a rehearsal for a ukulele show happening
Thats not the only theatre one can visit. I know off the top of my head that Dorchester has the Maumbury Ring enclosure re-purposed by the Romans, and in Wiltshire you have the abandoned site of Caleva Atrebatum. Cracking theatre there.
Hi Jim, Thank you for watching my film and for your post. To clarify the point that I made, The Romans had different types of entertainment venues. Amphitheatres were oval or elliptical with seating all the way round a central open arena which staged spectacles including wild beast displays, executions and gladiatorial fights. A number of Ampitheatres have been found in Roman Britain which can be visited today, some are featured in my other films. Theatres were semi-circular auditoriums in front of a stage, where plays and stage performances were put on. Some were converted to also allow spectacles to be put on, which appears to have happened at St Albans. Traces of only a few Roman theatres have been found in the UK, but to my knowledge St Albans is the only theatre currently visible, which is what makes it special. Thank you.
I was going to say the same thing, StAlbans ( verulamium) is the only one I know of, its easy to imagine the actors or musicians preparing themselves in the rooms backstage, I wonder if the public needed access all areas/ VIP passes to go backstage and hangout with the 'stars ' like today, did people ask for their autographs ?
Towards the end of Britain being part of the empire the theatre was used as a refuse tip , full of broken pottery and animal bone , and even 100s of copper coins. Although the coinage system ended & bartering returned, I'm still surprised the coins weren't collected and melted down into small ingots ready to be used for making tools or..
The saddest thing is the park protects only half the Roman city.
The other half is owned by Lord verulam,
Instead of leaving it the family have ploughed most if it up, destroying mosaic floors and who knows what else
He never allowed archaeologists to excavate his half of the ancient city .
They dont need the money
It's typical aristo arrogance.