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Column cut-out from The Times newspaper March 1859.

Thomas Wright (1810-1877) was an English antiquarian and writer. In 1859 he superintended the excavations at Viroconium or Uroconium, a Roman city at Wroxeter, Shropshire and published Uriconium; A Historical Account of the Ancient Roman City, and of the Excavations made upon this site at Wroxeter, in Shropshire...Thomas Wright...Longmans Green & Co., London 1872 . This column, from The Times newspaper, written by Thomas Wright on March 21st 1859, gives a contemorary detalled description of the excavations.