Birbeck, V. (2009). Friars Wash, Redbourn, Hertfordshire:evaluation and assessment report. Wessex Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.5284/1096179. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Friars Wash, Redbourn, Hertfordshire:evaluation and assessment report
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Series:		 Wessex Archaeology unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 Channel 4's Time Team carried out an evaluation of a site located some 8km north-west of St Albans, the Romano-British city of Verulamium. Archaeological remains were first noted at the site in 1965 when building foundations were ploughed up. An aerial photograph taken in 1976 shows an apparently multi-period site including ditched enclosures, a tripe ditch/dyke system and two rectangular structures considered to be Romano-British temples. Geophysical survey had identified several anomalies that coincided with features visible on aerial photographs and four evaluation trenches were excavated targeted on possible masonry structures and ditches identified. Two Romano-British temples of quite an unusual form, each consisting of two central cellae surrounded by an outer ambulatory wall, the ambuatories separated by a common dividing wall, were recorded in Trench1. The small approximaetely square building in Trench 3 could represent a third cella but its small size is more suggestive of an ancillary building. The circular structure in trench 2 similar in form to otger known Romano-British buildings and may be either a temple or a shrien. Buried soils, undated but pre-dating the construction of the masonry structures, were recorded in Trenches 1 and 2. Finds recovered from a metalled surface overlying the buried soil in Trench 1 suggest a late 1st or 2nd century AD date for the construction of one of the cellae, with activity continuing into the late 4th century Ad.
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Author:		 V Birbeck
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Publisher:		 Wessex Archaeology
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Year of Publication:		 2009
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Parish: Harpenden Rural
County: Hertfordshire
District: St Albans
Country: England
Grid Reference: 510098, 214499 (Easting, Northing)
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ROMAN (Historic England Periods)
SHRINE (Monument Type England)
ROMAN TEMPLE (Tag)
ROMAN SHRINE (Tag)
TRIAL TRENCH (Event)
TEMPLE (Monument Type England)
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OASIS Id: wessexar1-54804
OBIB: Report number. 68735.01
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Created Date:		 13 Jul 2022