The site of this small Romano-British town was at the modern Redhill, two kilometres due east from the centre of Oakengates on Watling St (A5), and was the last staging post before reaching Viroconium (Wroxeter). These staging posts were at intervals of twenty kilometres along the important routes in the Roman Empire, and served the Imperial Mail  with fresh horses. The first buildings were military in design, starting in the first century AD, but gradually more civilians and local Britons settled, and it became a market place, and ironworking started from the abundant supply of minerals.

This is a rough, and incomplete map of the major roads in the area.

Looking north over Uxacona from Watling Street. In the distance is The Wirral and Chester, and the wind comes in from the Irish Sea. It would have been a rather chilly change from Mediterranean Italy in the winter months. On the Wirral there was a British Iron Age sea trading post, called Meols, controlled by the Cornovii, where silver coins from the people of Brittany (Coriosolites) and Carthage (Tunisia) have been found.

Looking south to the Clee Hills

Looking west to one of the Cornovii hill forts, The Wrekin.

Coin found at Uxacona. It is of the Emperor Vespasian, AD 65 - 79	Roman Birdlip Brooch, first century AD, found at Uxacona