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AT the close of the present season, the excavations on the prehistoric and Roman sites of Verulamium at St. Albans, it is announced, will be suspended for a period of indefinite duration. The Excavations Committee, under the supervision of which the work has proceeded, will remain in being, and the finds are to be handed over to the Corporation of St. Albans. The present investigations at St. Albans have occupied three years. The results, as was anticipated from the importance of Verulamium in the polity of early Britain, have been as fruitful as any ever obtained from a Romano-British site, and, in fact, have exceeded expectation. They fully justify the necessarily heavy expenditure; and a correspondingly heavy burden of gratitude is laid on the learned world to Dr. and Mrs. Wheeler and their assistants, as well as to the Excavations Committee and the Corporation of St. Albans, through whom they were made possible. While there can be no doubt that the means will be forthcoming for continuing the investigation in due season, an intermission, provided it be not too long, is by no means entirely a misfortune. These three years of excavation have produced a mass of material which demands a breathing space for its proper digestion.
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Suspension of Excavation at Verulamium. Nature 132, 541–542 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132541d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132541d0