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Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman town, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about east-south-east of Shrewsbury. At its peak, Viroconium is estimated to have been the 4th-largest Roman settlement in Britain, a ''civitas'' with a population of more than .〔Frere, ''Britannia'', p.253〕 The settlement probably lasted until the end of the 7th century or the beginning of the 8th.〔(Archaeological assessment of Wroxeter/Viroconium p.5 )〕 Extensive remains can still be seen. ==Name== ''Viriconium'' is a Latinised form a native Brittonic placename reconstructed as *Uiroconion, the "() of *Uirokū". *Uiro-ku itself ( "man"-"wolf") is believed to have been a masculine given name meaning "werewolf". The "Cornoviorum" distinguishes the site as the Viriconium "of the Cornovii", the Celtic tribe whose ''civitas'' the settlement became. The original site of the Cornovian capital (also thought to have been named *Uiroconion) was a hillfort on the Wrekin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Viroconium Cornoviorum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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