Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman city, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire...
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Cornovii (Midlands) (section Cohors Primae Cornoviorum)
Geography names two of their towns: Deva Victrix (Chester) and Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), which became their capital under Roman rule. Their territory...
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Oswestry dates from the Iron Age, and the remains of the city of Viroconium Cornoviorum date from the Roman period. During the Anglo-Saxon era the area...
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continued northwest through Verulamium (St Albans) on its way to Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter). Watling Street is traditionally cited as having been...
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south-east of Shrewsbury. In 1961 the parish had a population of 657. Viroconium Cornoviorum, the fourth largest city in Roman Britain, was sited here, and is...
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this region was organised into a province, with the capital at Viroconium Cornoviorum (modern Wroxeter), the fourth-largest Roman city in Britain. It...
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unearthed in 1967 at Wroxeter, England (earlier the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum). The stone is in the care of English Heritage, and was included...
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Upton Magna are largely built of stone taken from the buildings of Viroconium Cornoviorum. Roman examples include the Arch of Janus, the earlier imperial...
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rule of Viroconium Cornoviorum, establishing a separate centre of power, which would become Powys. Between 530 and 550, Viroconium Cornoviorum, like many...
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Geography names two of their towns: Deva Victrix (Chester), and Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) which was their capital and probably the fourth largest...
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farthest south. The chief place was seemingly the former Roman Viroconium Cornoviorum (modern Wroxeter), the former civitas of the Cornovii and close...
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Vernometum (Willoughby on the Wolds) Alchester North Leigh Roman Villa Viroconium Cornoviorum, Wroxeter Aquae Sulis (Roman Bath) Burrington Charterhouse Roman...
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rule in Roman Wales, but in AD 66 the legion was transferred to Viroconium Cornoviorum (at Wroxeter) and its base in Wales was largely abandoned. It was...
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settled in the 5th century by refugees from the nearby Roman City of Viroconium Cornoviorum, but the first physical evidence dates from the 7th century Saxons...
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around the time of his rule attested by damage to the forum at Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) and the burning of a large part of Verulamium (St Albans)...
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Chester), which diverges from the present-day A5 corridor at Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) near Shrewsbury. The Act of Union 1800, which unified Great Britain...
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fort and set fire to it, moving the defeated tribe on to Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum). A more recent addition is the Wrekin transmitting station, used...
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of the Roman Watling Street, approximately 11 Roman miles from Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) to the west, and 11 miles from Pennocrucium (Penkridge)...
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Whitchurch (Mediolanum) C Winchester (Venta Belgarum) C Wroxeter (Viroconium Cornoviorum) C York (Eboracum) C The druids, the Celtic priestly caste who were...
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Coritanii to the east from Leicester, and to the west the Cornovii from Viroconium Cornoviorum. In the post Roman or Arthurian period (The Dark Ages), the nucleus...
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Corieltauvī (*Corieltauī) Ratae Corieltauvorum Cornovīī (*Cornowīī) Viroconium Cornoviorum Damnonīī Vanduara (Loudoun Hill or Walls Hill) Deceanglī Canovium...
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when the capital of Powys was moved from the old Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter). The 35m by 25m by 5m high motte of Mathrafal Castle...
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Exeter United Kingdom 55 AD Blestium Monmouth United Kingdom 58 AD Viroconium Cornoviorum Wroxeter United Kingdom 60 AD Aquae Sulis Bath United Kingdom 60...
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located on a major Roman routeway between Deva Victrix (Chester) and Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter). The Romans first built a fort which has been tentatively...
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Atrebates Wiltshire City Yes Shrewsbury (Wroxeter) Caer Guricon Viroconium Cornoviorum Cornovii (Midlands) Shropshire Town (Village) Yes Silchester Caer...
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Totality was visible in the Roman cities of Deva Victrix (Chester), Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), and Eboracum (York), though under a minute long in each...
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In 1859, he superintended the excavations of the Roman town of Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), near Shrewsbury, and issued a report. A portrait of...
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on Watling Street – the main Roman road across the Midlands to Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) – and was situated 700 metres east of its crossing of...
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developed his love of archaeology, having joined an excavation of Viroconium Cornoviorum, a Romano-British settlement in Wroxeter, in 1913. Considering a...
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settlement along the line of the Roman military road connecting Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter) and Caersws was uncovered, with evidence of trading of...
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