Postcards from Viroconium

I knew nothing about Wroxeter Roman City until we happened to find ourselves there, with just time for a quick visit. Once, English Heritage tell us, it was the fourth largest city in Roman Britain (I couldn't find an authoritative list, but at least oe version puts it after London, Cirencester and St Albans - and before York). I didn't know Housman's Uricon either, aand am grateful to cmcmck for the introduction.

All that survives - no, all that survives above ground, because the city extends well beyond what is now excavated, and beneath that presumably there are traces of the fort which preceded it - is the baths complex, including the magnificent stretch of wall known as the Old Work, of which the picture above is a detail.

( More pictures under the cut: )