Monument Type(s):

• MAUSOLEUM (Roman - 43 AD to 410 AD)
• MIXED CEMETERY (Roman - 43 AD to 410 AD)

Summary

The principal cemetery of the Roman town of Wroxeter. Excavations in 1861-2 found a broken tombstone and the site of a possible mausoleum, together with a number of interments and cremation burials laid out in rows .

Related records

Associated Finds

• FSA1854 - COIN (Late Iron Age to Roman - 41 AD to 54 AD)
• FSA1849 - BEAD (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1841 - BEAKER (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1847 - BOTTLE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1840 - BOWL (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1837 - DISH (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1839 - FLAGON (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1838 - JAR (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1842 - LAMP (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1850 - LANCET (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1853 - LOCK (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1848 - MIRROR (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1843 - PHIAL (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1844 - PHIAL (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1852 - SPATULA (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1835 - TOMBSTONE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1845 - UNGUENT BOTTLE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1846 - VASE (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1836 - VESSEL (Late Iron Age to Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
• FSA1855 - COIN (Roman - 98 AD to 117 AD)
• FSA1856 - COIN (Roman - 117 AD to 138 AD)

Associated Events

• ESA4261 - 1861-1862 Cemetery excavations at Middle Crows Green Cemetery, Wroxeter by Wright
• ESA4262 - 1923 Excavation by Atkinson at Horseshoe Lane cemetery, Wroxeter
• ESA4263 - 1970 field observation by the Ordnance Survey
• ESA4703 - 1973-1974 Horseshoe Lane Investigations

Description

Principal cemetery of the Roman town of Wroxeter. Probably both sides of the road, but material only from East side. Inscribed stones found periodically from 1752. Partial excavation in 1861-1862 [<1a>] and 1923 [<1b>], the latter producing a few poorly preserved inhumations, the former a probable Roman building. The full extent of the cemetery is uncertain <1>

Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, as one of less than 10 Romano-British Cemeteries <4>

Summary of CMHTS Comment on 1861-1862 excavations:
These found a broken tombstone and the site of a possible mausoleum, together with a number of interments located on a shallow bank. In addition, cremation burials in pottery vessels were laid out in rows and scattered over the eastern half of the field. Extensions into the next field to east and west did not locate any more. No interments were found north of the road. Near the find spot of the tombstone, a cremation pit was excavated comprising a square timber-lined pit within the ashes of which were melted glass phials. Most of the other graves were simple pits containing a simple pottery vessel, some accompanied by unguentaria or Samian dishes. Numerous finds, including a surgeons's kit, figured lamps and a complete tinned mirror <9>

CMHTS Report <10>

1923 excavations failed to locate outliers of the 1861-1862 cemetery, though two graves were found <11>

<00> Shropshire County Council SMR, Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards, SMR Card for PRN SA 00067 (Card index). SSA20722.

<01a> Victoria County History, 1908, Victoria County History 1, p215-256, esp p240 fig8 (Volume). SSA178.

<01b> Fox G E & Morriss J E, 1931, Uriconium, p15-16 (TEXT). SSA342.

<01> Ordnance Survey, 1970, Ordnance Survey Record Card SJ50NE8 (Card index). SSA343.

<02> Baker W A, 1957, Duplicate of SSA15945? (Oblique aerial photograph). SSA16038.

<03> Baker W A, 1992, AP Plot of Site 151 on Fig 10.3 (Aerial photograph transcription). SSA341.

<04> Horton Wendy B, 1990/ 1991, MPP Evaluation File, Cemeteries (Romano-British) (TEXT). SSA20084.

<05> Collingwood & Wright, 1965, Wroxeter (Salop) (Article in monograph). SSA11848.

<06> Scarth H (Revd), 1864, Report on the Progess of the Excavations at Wroxeter, the Roman Uriconium, since July 1860 (Article in serial). SSA11762.

<07> Wright T, 1872, Uriconium (TEXT). SSA4213.

<08> Johnson H, 1863, Article in the Archaeological Journal (Article in serial). SSA11761.

<09> Dalwood Hal & White Roger H, 1993/ 1996, CMHTS SMR Records Shropshire: Wroxeter, Wroxeter 67 (x2) (Record form). SSA19976.

<10> White Roger H & Dalwood Hal, 1996, Archaeological Assessment of Wroxeter, Shropshire (CMHTS) (Historic landscape survey report). SSA12089.

<11> Atkinson D, 1942, Report on the Excavations at Wroxeter (the Roman city of Viroconium) in the County of Salop 1923-1927 (Excavation report). SSA12010.

<12> Atkinson D, 1922, Report on Excavations (Article in serial). SSA11778.

<13> Wright T, 1867, Notes of the More Recent Discoveries at Wroxeter (Article in serial). SSA11763.

Sources

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