Wroxeter

Sep. 17th, 2023 02:02 pm
purplecat: Stonehenge at sunrise.  A woman stands between two stones. (General:Prehistory)

View of low stone ruins with an upright wall on the right and a Roman down house with a colonnade and yellow upper storey beyond.


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.

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We walked along the Montgomery Canal twice during our holiday - once going north from Welshpool and once south.

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