XXIX. Memoir concerning the Roman Baths discovered, in the year 1788, at Wroxeter, the ancient Uriconium or Viroconiûm. In a letter from the Rev. Mr. Leighton of Shrewsbury to Mr. Gough, Director

Abstract

A severe and tedious fit of inflammatory rheumatism has hitherto prevented my acknowledgment of your last favour, and the completion of my promise respecting the communication of the discoveries of Roman antiquities made lately at Wroxeter. This communication I hope will not have been made too late for your design of presenting them to the Society of Antiquaries, before it shall rise for the ensuing season.

Engineers and conservation: two centuries and no progress?

“…His heritage credentials are reinforced by his work at Wroxeter (Turner, 2008). Here he superintended the excavation of the ruins of the Roman city of Uriconium, on Pulteney's estate, the plan and sections for which are his earliest known published drawings ( Figure 3) (Telford, 1789, cited by Leighton, 1789). The considerable extent of his knowledge of historical precedents is indicated by the content of his substantial articles in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, 'Bridges', 'Civil architecture' and 'Inland navigation' (Brewster, 1830).…”