Wroxeter Stone

The Wroxeter Stone (also known as the Cunorix Stone) is an inscribed memorial stone dated to c. 460-475 AD, ploughed up in 1967 just outside the defenses of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum. The inscription reads CVNORIX MACVSMA QVICO[L]I[N]E, translated as 'Cunorix son of Maqui-Coline' in partly-Latinized Primitive Irish, evidencing post-Roman Irish settlement in western Britain. The name Cunorix means 'hound-king' in Celtic and may relate to Cynric of Wessex. The stone was reused from an earlier Roman tombstone that had been incorporated into a building.