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	VIROCONIUM Articles Viroconium Cornoviorum, or simply V
		Viroconium Cornoviorum, or simply Viroconium, was a Roman town, one corner of which is now occupied by the small village of Wroxeter in the English county of Shropshire, about 8 km (5 miles) east-south-east of Shrewsbury.
		Viroconium was established about AD 58 as a legionary fortress for the XIVth legion during their invasion of what is now Wales.
		Viroconium was then fitted out with an impressive set of public buildings, including public baths and a colonnaded forum dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, as shown by the remains of a fine insciption.
	www.amazines.com /Viroconium_related.html (570 words)

	Viroconium: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Viroconium was a Roman (Roman: An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire) city in England (England: A division of the United Kingdom).
		Viroconium is estimated to have been the fourth largest Roman settlement in Britain with a population of more than 6,000 people at its peak.
		Housman: English poet (1859-1936)) refers to the town as "Uricon (Uricon: viroconium was a roman city in england....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/viroconium (237 words)

	Cornovii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Viroconium Cornoviorum became one of the most important cities in Roman Britain, where Legio XIV Gemina was garrisoned for some time.
		At the end of Roman rule in Britain (circa 410) it is thought that the Viroconium became a centre of British resistance to Anglo-Saxon invaders, with speculation that it may have been used as a base by King Arthur.
		A tenth-century manuscript in the British Library records that Viroconium was occupied around 493AD by Owain Ddantgwyn, a late fifth-century king and an important warlord.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornovii (583 words)

	Viroconium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		'Viroconium' was the Roman name for a city now occupied by the English town of Wroxeter, around 5 miles south east of Shrewsbury.
		Although in decline, the city continued to be occupied following the Roman withdrawal in AD 410 and has been suggested by some as the Camelot of Arthurian myth.
		A fictional town, possibly inspired by the name Viroconium is Viriconium which appears in the books of M. John Harrison.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Viroconium (171 words)

	VIROCONIVM CORNOVIORVM
		The Roman town of Viroconium Cornoviorum was situated at a bend on the Sabrina Fluvius (River Severn) and started life as a small settlement to either side of Watling Street in the area of the present village of Wroxeter in Shropshire.
		The grey areas at the centre of Viroconium occupying blocks in the city grid to either side of the Watling Street are the only parts currently visible to the public, the Hadrianic forum to the west and the bath-house, lavatorium and macellum complex to the east.
		Viroconium eventually became the 4th largest town in Roman Britain at 180 acres (73 hectares).
	www.roman-britain.org /places/viroconium.htm (5209 words)

	The Real Camelot
		Viroconium, became the most prosperous in the country.
		The nerve center of this new Viroconium was a massive winged building that appears to have been the palace of an extremely important warlord.
		Powys was defeated: all that remained of it was a small country in central Wales and Viroconium was abandoned to the elements.
	www.grahamphillips.net /Trail/3_Camelot.htm (835 words)

	chapter fourteen summary
		The Cornovii tribe of the West Midlands and Central Wales was subject to the administration of Viroconium.
		Viroconium is therefore the most plausible site for the seat of Vortigern and the British administration at the end of Roman rule.
		Evidence that the Votadini ruled Viroconium by the end of the fifth century is supplied by a tombstone, dated at about 480, found at the excavation in 1967.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/349994 (564 words)

	Cornovii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The tribe lived in the modern counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire.
		Their capital became an important Roman settlement called Viroconium Cornoviorum when they were moved there from their hill fort on The Wrekin and is known today as Wroxeter.
		Old Oswestry hill fort is also thought to have been inhabited by the Cornovii.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Cornovii (247 words)

	Wroxeter Information
		Viroconium was the forth largest civitas in Roman Britain.
		As Caer Guircon it served as the early dark ages capital of the kingdom of Powys.
		There is a vineyard in the village (Wroxeter Roman Vineyard), which is the only commercial one in the county and since 2004 holds the record for growing the most northerly red wine grapes in the world.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Wroxeter (275 words)

	Analysis of Pottery from Wroxeter Roman City.
		The Roman City of Viroconium Cornoviorum, modern-day Wroxeter in Shropshire (Figure 43.1), was the fourth largest town in Roman Britain.
		Viroconium was probably established as the capital of the tribal canton of the Cornovii at this time, but its successful establishment seems to date from the visit of Hadrian to Britain in AD 122.
		The public baths of Viroconium were laid out in the 120s, but only completed in the middle of the second century.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /~slb/arch/arch1992.html (7383 words)

	Viroconium - The Old Work and Basilica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Viroconium, just southeast of Shrewsbury near Wroxeter, was once the fourth largest city in Roman Britain on a major Roman Road, Watling Street.
		Viroconium does not appear to have been burned or conquered, it seems to have run down gradually.
		Viroconium might well have been the most secure city in Britain in Arthurian times, as this area was not affected by the marauding Irish from the West, Picts from the North, and Anglo-Saxons from the East.
	www.legendofkingarthur.co.uk /central-england/viroconium.htm (201 words)

	Shrewsbury M.V.C.
		This 1st-century AD Roman legionary fortress at Viroconium was one of the largest towns in Roman Britain.
		Excavations at the Dark capital of Powis, Wroxeter, four miles to the east of Shrewsbury, have shown that in the fifth century, this city may have been the most sophisticated in the country.
		Viroconium at Wroxeter was the fourth largest city in Roman Britain.
	www.btinternet.com /~shrewsbury.mvc/town.htm (592 words)

	Wroxeter - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It is located on the site of the Roman city of Viroconium, which was once one of the largest cities in England but fell into decline once the Roman Empire left Britain around 410 AD.
		Some impressive standing ruins from Viroconium are located just outside the village, where there is a also a small museum.
		There is a vineyard in the village, which is the only commercial one in the county and since 2004 holds the record for growing the most northerly red wine grapes in the world.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Wroxeter (191 words)

	Kingdom of Powys Information
		During the Roman Empire this region was organised into a Roman province, with the capital at Viroconium Cornoviorum (modern Wroxeter), the fourth largest Roman city in Britain.
		Throughout the early Dark Ages, Powys was ruled by the Gwerthernion dynasty, a family claiming descent jointly from the marriage of Vortigern and Princess Sevira, the daughter of Magnus Maximus.
		Archaeology has shown that, unusually, Viroconium Cornoviorum survived as an urban centre well into the 6th century and, thus, could have been their capital.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Kingdom_of_Powys (2006 words)

	Owain Ddantgwynn & the Identity of Arthur
		Founded by Cunedda Wledig, Gwynedd was almost certainly the most important kingdom of the age, and as borders were extremely fluid it is entirely plausible that the influence of Cunedda's progeny spread into Powys as well as the Gwyneddian sub-kingdoms.
		Archaeology proves that the city reassumed considerable importance during the last years of imperial rule, and was massively reorganised shortly after the Roman withdrawal.
		Bearing in mind the importance of Owain Ddantgwyn, and the fact that many of the borders of Dark Age kingdoms were often in a fairly fluid state, it does not require too great a leap of faith to propose that Viroconium may have been his power base also.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/FeaturesBritain/CymruOwain&Arthur.htm (1068 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Cornovii
		The tribe lived in the modern counties of North Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire.
		Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geography (II.ii) places them to the east of the Ordovices in what is now Wales and remarks on their towns Deva Victrix (Chester), seat of Legio XX Valeria Victrix and Viroconium (Wroxeter).
		The important Roman settlement called Viroconium Cornoviorum became their capital when they were moved there from their hill fort on The Wrekin.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Cornovii (436 words)

	Arthur
		Viroconium is together with London, Lincoln and York, one of the most important Cities in the 5th century.
		But since the two first cities were invaded by the Anglo-Saxons and the third one by the Pictos Viroconium stayed safe from those attacks and acquired more reputation among the British.
		All that remain in Viroconium at present are the ruins of her wall amid the countryside.
	club2.telepolis.com /ritchieink/ESCRITORES3.htm (2049 words)

	Shropshire Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is an excerpt from 'On The Trail of King Arthur in Shropshire' - a leaflet published by Shropshire County Council.
		Archaeological excavations reveal that shortly after the departure of the Romans, and while civilisation was collapsing elsewhere in Britain, Viroconium was rebuilt in a highly sophisticated fashion.
		Viroconium was a massive Roman City built on a typical square grid pattern of interlocking streets centred around the forum and the baths.
	www.mythstories.com /lcityI.html (262 words)

	Viroconium Collection / Digital Scriptorium / Cultural Collections / University Services / The University of Newcastle, ...
		The Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Unit, Auchmuty Library is proud to announce the arrival of a collection of artefacts from the ancient world, including items from two sites in Roman Britain, each of which is believed (by some) to be the fabled mythical location of King Arthur's Camelot.
		This "Little" Collection consists of around 120 objects, most of which represent the fruits of a 6-week archaeological dig conducted in 1960 at Viroconium (the ancient name of Wroxeter in Shropshire) and a nearby Iron Age hill-fort.
		Viroconium was the fourth largest city in Roman Britain and was first settled by the Romans in AD48.
	www.newcastle.edu.au /service/archives/digitalscriptorium/viroconium/index.html (431 words)

	King Arthur - The True Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Viroconium still survives as an impressive ruin just outside the village of Wroxeter, some five miles southeast of Shrewsbury in the county of Shropshire.
		The nerve centre of this new Viroconium was a massive winged building that appears to have been the palace of an extremely important chieftain.
		As Viroconium was the Roman name for the city, and no records survive of what the Dark Age Britons called it, could it actually have been the historical Camelot?
	www.kingarthurthetruestory.com /truestory.asp (1062 words)

	Separating fact from mythology: Shropshire Star
		Of course, this arguably builds one myth on top of another, as the historical basis for Arthur is disputed.
		The theory that Viroconium was the site of Camelot is not new, and Levy makes clear that he is drawing on the research and theories of other authors.
		And he points out that an engraved stone found at Viroconium records that the city was occupied by a king of the Cunedda family - Owain’s family.
	www.shropshirestar.co.uk /2006/08/284 (241 words)

	Cornovii: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		[follow hyperlink for more...]), seat of Legio XX Valeria Victrix (Legio XX Valeria Victrix: more facts about this subject) and Viroconium (Wroxeter) (Viroconium (Wroxeter): wroxeter is a village in the county of shropshire, england....
		The important Roman settlement called Viroconium Cornoviorum (Viroconium Cornoviorum: viroconium was a roman city in england....
		Viroconium Cornoviorum became one of the most important cities in Roman Britain, where Legio XIV Gemina (Legio XIV Gemina: more facts about this subject) was garrisoned for some time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/cornovii (615 words)

	Anti Essays : : Explorations in Arthurian History
		Prominent examples can be found still standing at Bath and Wroxeter (the Roman metropolis Viroconium).
		Viroconium was once the military stronghold for the Roman conquest of Wales.
		Viroconium was later turned into the military stronghold of Vortigern in Powys.
	www.antiessays.com /print.php?eid=693 (768 words)

	Marcus Vinicius Spatula - A Roman Story - IX - Chapter 9
		A settlement some twenty-five miles north of Viroconium, it had not thus far been on anyone's lips, officially or even in gossip.
		Benevolus and Spesis departed the next morning, the latter affecting consternation at the dusty state of Viroconium and insisting that he couldn't possibly entertain guests until the compound had new matting throughout.
		The vicinity of Viroconium filled up with lethal spears, burnished shields and organisational problems for Spesis, the last of which he managed with his customary aplomb.
	www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk /content/rostory/spat9.htm (2138 words)

	The Moor Hall, nr Ludlow, Shropshire
		The overall plan for the construction of the Roman towns and roads related closely to the existing pattern of settlement, discernable in the position of Iron Age camps.In the north, the Romans focused their development on Viroconium (Wroxeter) at the heart of the rich Severn plain.
		As the first century A.D. drew to a close, the fort which had once been the base for 6000 troops, had been transformed into the impressive regional capital of the Corvonii.
		Watling Street joined Viroconium with the midlands and reached southwards through the military site that grew into a small civil settlement at Leintwardine, to Kenchester, where a small regional settlement covering some 22 acres was established.
	www.moorhall.co.uk /Ancient3.htm (195 words)

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