Wroxeter
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Wroxeter is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wroxeter and Uppington, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is beside the River Severn,
St Andrew's Church, Wroxeter
The ruins of Viroconium's public baths at Wroxeter
A lidar view of Wroxeter and part of the old Roman city wall
Sub-Roman Britain
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Sub-Roman Britain, also called post-Roman Britain or Dark Age Britain, is the period of Late Antiquity in Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the founding of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The term
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…The minor Magonsæte sub-kingdom also emerged in the area in the interlude between Powysian and Mercian rule. Viroconium may have served as the early post-Roman capital of Powys prior to its removal to Mathrafal sometime before 717, following famine and plague in the area. The city has been variously identified…
The end of Roman rule in Britain
Barbury Castle, a 6th-century hillfort in Wiltshire
Roman coins findings clearly indicate the areas of greatest "Romanization" and presence in Roman Britain.
Britain c. 540, in the time of Gildas