The town was located on a major Roman routeway between Deva Victrix (Chester) and Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter).
The Romans first built a fort which has been tentatively suggested as forming part of the border defences established by Ostorius Scapula around AD 52.
The town reached the height of its prosperity by the early 3rd century and there was much rebuilding in stone.
[3] In 2016, archaeologists discovered the remains of a Roman wooden trackway, a number of structural timbers, a large amount of Roman pottery and fifteen leather shoes during work on a culvert in Whitchurch.
The small denomination, brass or copper alloy coins, known as Dupondii and Asses, were from the reign of the Emperor Trajan, AD 98–117.