Editing Verulamium (section)

==Remains of the Roman period==
As well as the items in the museum, there are a few remains of the Roman city visible, including
* parts of the [[city walls]]. These originally surrounded the city apart from a section protected by the River Ver
* a [[hypocaust]] still [[in situ]] under a mosaic floor,  
* [[Roman Theatre, St Albans|the theatre]]
Although there are other Roman theatres in Britain (for example at [[Camulodunum]]), the one at Verulamium has been claimed<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ltd |first=The Gorhambury Estates Company |title=The Roman Theatre - The Gorhambury Estate |url=https://www.gorhamburyestate.co.uk/The-Roman-Theatre |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=www.gorhamburyestate.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> to be the only full excavated example of its kind, being a theatre with a stage rather than an [[amphitheatre]]. The theatre is on the grounds of and therefore run by the Gorhambury Estate.<ref name="GE">{{Cite web |url=http://www.gorhamburyestate.co.uk/The-Roman-Theatre |title=The Roman Theatre |website=gorhamburyestate.co.uk |access-date=2017-07-26}}</ref>
[[File:RomanTheatreVerulamium-PS1.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3|alt=Roman theatre packed-earth entryway and central stage surrounded by grass-covered seating hillocks (ruins)|[[Roman Theatre, St Albans]]]]

More remains under the nearby agricultural land which have never been excavated were for a while seriously threatened by deep [[ploughing]].
Although recent results of GPR ( ground penetrating radar) have revealed more damage than originally thought has been done to most buildings, especially the north western part of the old Roman city.

Verulamium is mentioned in a Latin inscription on a [[wax tablet]], dated to AD 62, discovered in London during the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14:<ref>Tomlin, R.S.O., Roman London's first voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, London 2016, writing tablet 45.</ref>
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::<small>P(ublio) Mario Ce<lso=XIII> L(ucio) Afinio Gallo co(n)s(ulibus) XII Kal(endas) Nove//mbr(es) M(arcus) Renn[iu]s Venusrus me condux{s}isse a C(aio) Valerio Proculo ut intra Idus Novembres perferret a <nowiki>[[Londi]]</nowiki> Verulamio penoris onera viginti in singula |(denarii) quadrans vecturae ea condicione ut per me mora |(assem) I Londinium quod si ulnam om[n]e[m]</small>

In the consulship of Publius Marius Celsus and Lucius Afinius Gallus, on the 12th day before the Kalends of November (21 October AD 62). I, Marcus Rennius Venustus, (have written and say that) I have contracted with Gaius Valerius Proculus that he bring from Verulamium by the Ides of November (13 November) 20 loads of provisions at a transport-charge of one-quarter denarius for each, on condition that … one as … to London; but if … the whole …<ref>{{cite web|url=https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/TabLondBloomberg45|title=Tab.Lond.Bloomberg <WT45>. Stylus tablet|website=romaninscriptionsofbritain.org|accessdate=27 April 2022}}</ref>
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