Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter), near Shrewsbury, became the fourth-largest Roman city in Britain and the tribal capital of the Cornovii. The establishment of a legionary fortress here required the military reduction of Cornovian resistance under Ostorius Scapula's disarmament campaign of AD 47. The Cornovii — the dominant tribe of Shropshire and Staffordshire — had hillforts at The Wrekin and Bury Walls that were neutralised. Wroxeter subsequently became a major Roman administrative centre, its forum inscription recording its dedication under Hadrian.
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