Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Radlett
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Roman period=== During the Roman occupation of [[Verulamium]], the area from Radlett to [[Brockley Hill]] was home to a number of major potteries, which supplied not only the Roman capital but other parts of the province.<ref>Branigan, Keith, 'The Catuvellauni' (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1985) p. 147</ref><ref>Castle, Stephen A., 'Roman Pottery from Radlett, 1959', Herts. Arch., iv (1976)</ref> One of these potteries is known to have existed on Loom Lane.<ref>Page, William, {{cite web|url=http://www.stalbanshistory.org/documents/1899_1900_01_.pdf |title=A Romano-British Kiln Discovered at Radlett}}, St. Albans and Herts Architectural and Archaeological Society 1900.</ref> Roman-era clay pits are still in evidence at the southern end of the village, in the area around Cobden hill and [[Tabard RFC]]. In addition, there is evidence of a Roman villa with a bath building, barn and tile kiln dating from 2nd to 4th century AD, in the area of Netherwylde Farm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=362062 |title=Historic England Pastscape Monument record 362062}}</ref>
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)