Roman Town House Wroxeter

Thanks to an innovative TV project with English Heritage and Channel 4, a Roman villa urbana - a high status Roman town house - has been constructed at Wroxeter Roman City.

Channel 4's "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" followed a team of modern builders as they set about building a town house using traditional Roman methods.

The builders were aided in their quest by a manual on Roman building written by engineer Vitruvius 2000 years ago, and supervised by Professor Dai Morgan Evans, the project's planner.

Wroxeter (or 'Viroconium') was the fourth largest city in Roman Britain. It began as a legionary fortress and later developed into a thriving civilian city