The remains refer to a stretch of the town wall of Corinium Dobunnorum, the civitas capital of the Dobunni and, by the 4th century, probably the provincial capital of *Britannia Prima*. The town developed from a 1st-century fort site (c. AD 49) into a major civilian centre by the early 2nd century; the masonry defences enclosing some 240 acres were added to earlier earthen ramparts in the later 2nd century and refurbished in the 4th, making Cirencester the second-largest walled town in Roman Britain after London.
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Corinium sat at the junction of Ermin Street, the Fosse Way, and Akeman Street, giving it a commanding role in the regional economy of the Cotswolds — a landscape rich in villas, mosaic workshops, and agricultural wealth. Its elevation to a probable provincial capital under the Diocletianic reorganisation marks it as administratively exceptional outside London and York.
Excavations from the 1960s onwards (notably by Wacher and McWhirr) have exposed sections of the wall circuit, internal towers, and the amphitheatre just outside it, alongside the forum-basilica, town houses, and high-quality mosaics now in the Corinium
The remains refer to a stretch of the town wall of Corinium Dobunnorum, the civitas capital of the Dobunni and, by the 4th century, probably the provincial capital of *Britannia Prima*. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Remains of Roman wall is classified as a Roman site — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Col. Glevum (0.2 km), Roman tilery at St Oswald's Priory (0.6 km), Barnwood Roman cemetery (3.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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