Turnershall Farm
In 2002, metal detectorists discovered two of the most significant burials to come from Roman Britain. The objects from these burials, including two silver brooches, were taken to Verulamium Museum in St Albans for assessment by the Coroner, and found to be Treasure Trove.
Pair of Roman copper alloy jugs excavated at Turnershall Farm, near St Albans.
Geophysical survey and excavations confirmed the site dates from the Late Iron Age, approximately 50 BC until the Late Roman period in the fourth century AD. Earlier work had suggested there was also an early Saxon settlement dating up to 600 AD. All this activity takes place within a landscape of small fields and enclosures surrounded by banks and ditches with houses and other buildings scattered throughout the site.
