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entirely unknown and must remain so till we get to know more 
of this kind of work. 
Two Romano-British pottery-kilns were found at Loom Lane, 
Radlett, in 1898. They were for the manufacture of ordinary 
Romano-British ware, hut their particular interest was that the 
“ mortaria,” of which numerous pieces were found, were stamped 
with the name “ Castus,” evidently the name of the potter. 
Many objects of interest of pre-Norman date have been 
discovered in the neighbourhood of St. Albans, especially on 
the site of Yerulam, but space will not permit of their enumera¬ 
tion here. 
IX. THE COUNTY MUSEUM. 
The Hertfordshire County Museum is situated in Hatfield 
Road, St. Albans, upon a site generously provided by the late 
Earl Spencer. The foundation-stone of the first portion of 
the permanent building, i.e. the Museum as it now stands, 
was laid on 20th July, 1898, by Ladv Evans, and in less 
than sixteen months later this wing was opened and dedicated 
to public use by Lady Cowper. The Museum and its contents 
are vested in the Herts County Council, the governing bodies 
being a general committee elected from the County Council, 
the various local authorities, and the scientific societies of 
Hertfordshire, together with an executive committee, known 
as the Board of Curators. The official staff consists of a Curator 
and a Caretaker. 
The Museum is open free to the public every week-day except 
Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.; 
on Thursdays also from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The St. Albans and 
Herts Archaeological Society, the St. Albans Camera Club, 
and the St. Albans and District Beekeepers’ Association have 
their headquarters here and hold regular meetings in the lecture- 
room, and occasional lectures are delivered in it during the 
winter months under the auspices of the Hertfordshire Natural 
History Society. 
The Museum is primarily intended to be illustrative of the 
Topography, G-eology, Natural History, and Archaeology of 
Hertfordshire, but whilst special prominence is given to objects 
of a local character the collections cover the whole of the 
British area. 
In the main hall are temporarily placed two cases containing 
the last half of the mounted ornithological collection. The 
orders here represented comprise the Limicolae, Columbse, 
Gfallinse, Anseres, Gfaviae, etc. As with the rest of the collection 
at present situated in the Natural History room, a red disc 
is affixed to the label when the species has been recorded for 
Hertfordshire. 
The lecture-room, which adjoins the hall, is partly devoted 
to the purposes of a Library, and here are housed the 
