Corinium Dobunnorum

Corinium Dobunnorum was the Romano-British settlement at Cirencester in the present-day English county of Gloucestershire [1]. Its 2nd-century walls enclosed the second-largest area of a city in Roman Britain [1]. A Roman fort was established at Corinium in the territory of the friendly tribe of the Dobunni about a year after the Roman conquest of Britain [1]. By the mid-70s CE, the military had abandoned the fort and the site became the tribal capital of the Dobunni [1]. Over the next twenty years, a street grid was laid out and the town was furnished with an array of large public stone buildings, two market places, and numerous shops and private houses [1]. The forum and basilica were bigger than any other in Britain, apart from Londinium's [1]. Around the time of the Roman withdrawal from Britain in 410, the town walls were repaired and the forum continued to be regularly cleaned [1]. It was finally abandoned around 430 [1].