Upcoming Talk May 2026

Wroxeter: Breaking New Ground 

Speaker: Dr Roger White, University of Birmingham

In 2024 a rare opportunity arose for an excavation in the heart of Wroxeter Roman City in Shropshire. This research excavation targeted a small paddock west of the Victorian model farm buildings that lie opposite the on-site museum. The paddock was created when the farm buildings were constructed around 1850, which means that the field has not been ploughed since that date, a rare survival within the area of the Roman town. One of the research aims, therefore, was to carry out detailed soil micromorphology to gain an understanding of when the land became fields. The other main aim was to try to locate evidence for the suspected main civic temple which should lie adjacent to the forum. As always in archaeology, we got answers, but not necessarily to the questions we had asked.