What is "uxacona"

Uxacona was a Romano-British settlement located at Redhill near present-day Telford, Shropshire.

The settlement lies at the highest point of the Roman Watling Street, approximately 11 Roman miles from Viroconium Cornoviorum ( Wroxeter) to the west, and 11 miles from Pennocrucium ( Penkridge) to the east. Its only documentary mention is in the 2nd century Antonine Itinerary.

The main settlement consisted of a small enclosure bisected by Watling Street, surrounded by a single ditch and showing evidence of occupation from the early to the mid 4th century. To the north of the settlement lay a large single-ditched enclosure that may have been a military storage depot from the campaign of Quintus Veranius in 57 and a smaller double-ditched enclosure that may have been a signal station from the later 1st century.