Uriconium [Wroxeter]

WAY/06/04

Uriconium [Wroxeter]

c 1830-c 1860

sub-series

One folder.

Contains: Annual Report of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society for 1859; five small folders of correspondence from Thomas Wright FSA containing his articles on the excavations of the Roman city of Uriconium at Wroxeter, Shropshire and letters to the Times on the subject ranging from 1859 to 1867; an article from the Intellectual Observer , February 1862 by Thomas Wright FSA on the Roman cemetery at Uriconium; an article titled 'On Llywarch Hen and the Destruction of Uriconium by Thomas Wright FSA; an article by Thomas Wright FSA titled 'Human remains found in the excavations at Wroxeter' presented at the Ethnological Society and the British Association in 1862; an article 'On the Fall of Uriconium' in Archaeologica Cambrensis by Edwin Guest FRS in 1864; an article titled 'Roman Engraved Stones found on the site of Uriconium, at Wroxeter, Salop' by Thomas Wright FSA; a report 'The Recent Discoveries at Wroxeter' by Rev. Harry Mengden Scarth to the Section of Antiquities of the Institute of Carlisle, July 1859; a 'Report on the Progress of the excavations at Wroxeter, the Roman Uriconium' by Rev. Harry Mengden Scarth to the Section of Antiquities of the Institute of Gloucester, July 1860; an article 'On the date of the foundation of Uriconium and of Caerleon-on-Usk, with some remarks on the site of the overthrow of Caractacus', bound with a report 'On the Progress of the excavations at Wroxeter, the Roman Unriconium, since Jukly 1860' both by Rev. Harry Mengden Scarth; a small bundle of correspondence labelled 'Thomas Wright, Albert Way, John Evans, Henry Johnson', which includes the following: one hand-drawn map by Hillary Davies and one printed map of the Uriconium excavations in 1859; letters from Henry Johnson from 1859 to 1863; a hand-drawn map of the excavations of the Roman cemetery at Uriconium by Hillary Davies in 1861; a hand-drawn map by Way of the walls at Uriconium, March 1859; two printed Board of Ordnance maps of the City of Uriconium, a hand-drawn map of 'Wroxeter and the vestiges of Uriconium' by Way; an article titled 'Notes on the distortions which present themselves in the crania of the Ancient Britons' by Joseph Barnard Davis FSA dated July 1862; a letter from John Evans FSA in March 1860 on the subject of the name Uriconium; the resolution of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society of November 1858 for a subscription for the purpose of excavations at Uriconium, at which Way, Scarth, Wright and Johnson were appointed to a Committee for the scheme.

Way, Albert (1805-1874), antiquary

SAL/MS/700/VI