Verulamium at St Albans

Last year I visited Verulumium - capital of the Catuvellauni - at St. Albans. It was on my bucket list for quite a while, and it is only Roman theater visible in Britain today. This time, I took the train from Rotterdam to London and from London to St. Albans. Arriving in St. Albans it took a half hour walk through some the village and passing some Roman remains in a park to reach the remains of the theater. Verulamium was among the first Romano-British towns to be built and by about AD 250 it was the third largest in the province, surpassed only by London and Cirencester. It was not until about a hundred years after the Roman occupation that the first theatre in Verulamium was built. That might be around 140 AD, with serious alterations until the early fourth century. The stage and seatings were mainly of wood, while the arena and orchestra was covered by a flat cement floor at the fourth period (AD 300). The total population of the town was probably never more than abou...