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DURING the excavation of Roman remains lying beneath a car park near the Verulamium Museum, St. Albans, in the summer of 1955 some eighteen living earthworms were found among layers of blackened organic material between eight and fifteen feet below ground-level.
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DOBSON, R., SATCHELL, J. Eophila oculata at Verulamium: a Roman Earthworm Population?. Nature 177, 796–797 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177796a0
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