SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a report in The Guardian, a geophysical survey of more than 2,400 acres in England’s West Midlands has detected traces of two Roman villas, a Roman cemetery, Roman roads, and eight Iron Age farmsteads. Researchers from England’s National Trust said that the sites were found near the location of the city of Viriconium Cornoviorum, or Wroxeter, in Roman Britain. The survey was conducted in order to plan for conservation of the landscape, which is owned by the National Trust. “The landscape had quite dense occupation throughout history, and it is that continuous occupation that is very exciting,” said National Trust archaeologist Janine Young. To read more about Roman discoveries in England, go to “The Wall at the End of the Empire.”
