XXIV 
PROCEEDINGS OE THE 
[Field Meeting, 20th Mat, 1886.* 
HATFIELD AND COLE GBEEN. 
[Field Meeting, 5th June, 1886. 
ST. STEPHEN’S, ST. ALBANS. 
This meeting was held in conjunction with the St. Albans 
Architectural and Archaeological Society, and was under the 
direction of Mr. Silvester. From the London and [North-western 
Station the party crossed the fields to St. Julian’s, where Mr. 
A. E. Gibbs gave an account of the Leper’s Hospital, and the Eev. 
H. Eowler exhibited a copy of an old map of the Manor of St. 
Julian’s on which the position of the hospital was indicated. 
St. Stephen’s Yicarage was then visited, the members of the 
two Societies being received by the Vicar, the Eev. W. D. W. 
[Dudley, who exhibited a hexagonal glass cinerary urn and other 
Eoman remains discovered in the churchyard, and conducted the 
party over the church, explaining the objects of interest in it. 
Eemarks on the history of the church were also made by the Eev. 
H. Eowler and the Eev. Dr. Griffith. 
A visit was then paid to Mr. A. Godman’s apiary, where the 
process of making foundation-wax for the use of the bees was seen. 
Leaving St. Stephen’s, a walk was taken along the Watling 
Street to the Verulam Woods, where the Eev. Dr. Griffith gave an 
account of the old city of Verulam. The ancient Eoman walls 
seen in these woods, he said, stood close by one of the more ancient 
British roads or trackways—the Watling Street—which, after 
passing London from the coast of Kent, entered Hertfordshire near 
Sulloniacse on the Erockley Hills, and traversed much the same 
line as the Eoman road afterwards did, by Medburn, Colney 
Street, New Park Eury, Cobden Hall, Park Street, St. Julian’s, St. 
Stephen’s, and past Gorhambury Park to Eedbourn and Markyate 
Street, leaving our county near Dunstable and continuing on to 
Holyhead. Along this road the ancient Britons had fortified places 
at Sulloniacse, here, and at Maiden Bower, near Dunstable. The 
old British town near this spot was probably the capital of 
Cassivellaunus, defended by forest-wood and by marshes, which the 
Eomans under Julius Caesar took in the year 54 b.c. But these 
walls, he thought, were probably those constructed by the Eomans 
when they re-built Verulam after the insurrection under Queen 
Boadicea. 
After the walls and earthworks had been examined, the members 
of the two Societies visited Westminster Lodge, where they were 
entertained at tea by Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Edwards. 
* The Editor was not present at the Field Meetings of which no reports are 
given, and has been unable to obtain accounts of them. 
