Wroxeter (pronounced "Rock-Sitter")'s a village in the county of Shropshire, England, on the east bank of the River Severn, at . It's located on the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, known in Old Welsh as Caer Guricon. Viroconium was the fourth largest civitas capital in Roman Britain. As Caer Guricon it may have served as the early Dark Age capital of the kingdom of Powys. Mercian encroachment forced the Welsh to move to Mathrafal castle sometime before 717. Pengwern and Powys… (
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