13 AUGUST 1937, Page 6

Digging at Wroxeter is to begin again next month. The

announcement is more intelligible when it is remembered that Wroxeter is the Roman Uriconium (Housman has made it familiar : " The wind it blew through holt and hanger When Uricon the city stood ") lying close to the Severn about five miles from Shrewsbury. Like so many things worth seeing in these islands it is seen by few. Yet anyone can go in for a shilling, the shilling helps to pay for the digging, and what has been dug and laid bare already constitutes, I believe, the largest area of Roman remains south of Hadrian's Wall. Yet out of the 18o acres which Uriconium is thought to have covered only to have so far been excavated. What additions to knowledge may be lying hidden under a few feet of soil.

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