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Wroxeter
The village of Wroxeter occupies one corner of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum. English Heritage has preserved an excavation of the substantial baths, next to a modern recreation of a Roman town house. Most of the baths, as is common with Roman remains, had clearly been covered by the landscape but "The Old Work" must have stood visible in arable land and one can't help feeling that the nearby residents of Shrewsbury missed a trick when they didn't loot it for building material.
The Old Work
No photo of Roman baths would be complete without a picture of the hypocaust.
B. and I are used to seeing bath houses in frontier forts. The sheer scale of a city bath complex was something else. As well as the numerous bath house rooms, there were areas for the sale of goods and meals.
These pillars mark the side of the city forum - a colonnade of stands where merchants sold their wares.
This is the view from inside the replica town house of its garden.