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	Wroxeter: The bathhouse and palaestra wall Palaestra wall at Wroxeter (photo: Athena Review).
	Wroxeter (Viriconium Cornoviorum), located in Shropshire near Wales, served briefly as a Legionary Fortress in the 1st century AD. The civitas capital of the Cornovii tribe, it remained an important town throughout the Roman era (AD 43-410). Portions of the public bathhouse are visible at the site today,  including this large section of standing wall separating the gymnasium (palaestra) from the bath. The wall was built in the usual Roman manner of layers of cut stones alternating with bonding layers of flat bricks or paving tiles.
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