Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans

Coates, Richard

Abstract

A submitted article in the principal journal of general Celtic scholarship, accepted without major revision, reviewing previous scholarship on this difficult Romano-British place-name and claiming that it meant, in British Celtic, 'place of a man named Crooked-Hand'. This piece is representative of a major strand of the author's work on the survival of Celtic place-names in what is now English-speaking territory.
According to Professor Geraint H. Jenkins, Director of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies): 'No self-respecting Celtic scholar can afford to neglect Studia Celtica: it lies at the cutting edge of international scholarship.'

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2005
• Journal: Studia Celtica
• Print ISSN: 0081-6353
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 169-176
• Keywords: Celtic, place names, Verulamium, St Albans, Romano-British
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1049179
• Publisher URL: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/uwp/stce/2005/00000039/00000001/art00009