Verulamium
Proper noun
Meaning
Verulamium
(historical) A town in Britannia, Roman Empire. An ancient town in Roman Britain, sited in the southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
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Rosalind Niblett, Verulamium, Stroud: Tempus, 2001 He was probably buried outside the city walls in a Roman cemetery near the present Cathedral and his hillside grave is said to have become a place of pilgrimage.
The interior of the fort at Burghead was some 12 acres (5 hectares) in size, see Driscoll, "Burghead"; for Verlamion (later Roman Verulamium ), a southern British settlement on a very much larger scale, see e.g. Pryor, Britain AD, pp. 64–70.
Moreover, when Bacon was ennobled in 1618, he took the title Baron Verulam after Verulamium.
It grew to a significant town, and as such received the attentions of Boudica of the Iceni in 61, when Verulamium was sacked and burnt on her orders: a black ash layer has been recorded by archaeologists, thus confirming the Roman written record.