Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon offers a perspective on how people
over time have viewed the abandoned Roman city of Wroxeter in
Shropshire. It responds to three main artistic outputs relating to
the site: poetry, images and texts. The poets include Wilfred Owen,
A.E. Housman and Mary Webb. The writers cover a range of interests
relating to the site but include Darwin, Dickens, Rosemary Sutcliff
and John Buchan. The artists are perhaps less well-known but
include watercolours by Thomas Girtin, archaeological
reconstructions by Alan Sorrell and Amedee Forrestier, and
paintings by Wroxeter's own resident artist, Thomas Prytherch.
Photographs are represented by the work of Francis Bedford and
others more closely associated with aerial archaeology such as J.K.
St Joseph and Arnold Baker. While the famous names have their
value, The book also investigates what locals and visitors thought
of the site over time - how they perceived it and have responded to
it. It reflects in particular upon how the public and locals
responded to the archaeological discoveries on the site and
perceived the narratives that were created by the archaeologists
working on it. It contends that archaeologists are just as much
story-tellers as the writers, poets or artists, although their work
is more filtered or controlled, and through these narratives, they
inspire others. A further strand to the book is to explore the
increasing focus over the past century on the democratisation of
access to and understanding of the site, alongside increasing state
intervention in its running. This too has had its impact on who
visits and what is understood about the site. A short concluding
section offers a vision of how the site might develop in the
near-future, and how its cultural side might flourish once again.
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