Roman Temple Sticker

Roman Temple ruins in River Way, Harlow, Essex. The site can be reached through the industrial estate on River Way. It is on a small hillock, with the River Stort a little way to the north. Information boards supply a history of the Temple, which is marked out with paving slabs showing the limits of the outer temple, a raised area showing the inner temple and a couple of blocks marking the altar stone. There is nothing left of the earlier temple or barrow, but these are marked on the maps on the information boards. Roman remains were excavated here in 1764 and again in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Large scale digs were organised in the 1960’s and 1980’s and finds can be seen in the Harlow Museum. The name Harlow comes from the Saxon sett...