Field Trip to St Albans Abbey
Field Trip: St Alban’s Abbey led by Geoff Crockford and Nigel Hughes We’ll dowse the Abbey and also the grounds of Verulamium park. The park stands on the site of the Roman city of Verulamium, excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1930s. Roman city walls, a mosaic floor and a hypocaust can still be [...]
Visit to Silchester
The ancient Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum in close to modern day Silchester. It is just in Hampshire, south west of Reading. This large town probably flourished during the Iron Age, but the Romans took over soon after 43AD and developed the town into a major settlement, eventually surrounding it with massive walls, the remains [...]
