. Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium . Nennius classes it as the fourteenth in a list of 33British towns which he has enumerated.* This, from its natural situation,having abundance of water in the Corin, or Churn, a small river that risesat Cubberly, and being convenient for communication with the west, whileit was the centre and capital of the conquered Dobuni, it l)ecame necessaryto garrison it, in order to keep the natives in full subjection. Having Romanized the settlement, the new settlers did the like with thename, and Corin, with a la
. Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium . Nennius classes it as the fourteenth in a list of 33British towns which he has enumerated.* This, from its natural situation,having abundance of water in the Corin, or Churn, a small river that risesat Cubberly, and being convenient for communication with the west, whileit was the centre and capital of the conquered Dobuni, it l)ecame necessaryto garrison it, in order to keep the natives in full subjection. Having Romanized the settlement, the new settlers did the like with thename, and Corin, with a latin teimination, became Corinium, which iscalled, by Ptolemseus, Corinium Dobunorum; lie also says that AquaeCalidae (Bath) lies to the south of Corinium ; and Ricihard of Cirencesterplaces Corinium in the Xth Iter between Glebon Colonial and Aqua Solis,xiv miles from the former, so that it is evident that Corinium was theCaer Corin of the British, and that modern Cirencester (from the SaxonCyren-ceaster) is on its site. * Histor. de prim, inhab. Britonum Britannicie insulw. Plate ..ii. Bail^ Jt , (»,-^^rj.* THE FOETIFICATIONS OF COEINIUM. Having concluded that modern Cirencester occupies the site of an ancientBritish settlement, which was colonized by the Romans, wc proceed to anexamination of the works now extant of the latter people; hoping by whatis still left to us to be enabled to show that Corinium was a city of greatimportance under the Roman rule, notwithstanding that the ravages of time,and, still worse, the destructiveness of anti-conservative proprietors, haveobliterated much valuable evidence.* Richard of Monmouth concludes that Corinium was built by a RomanGeneral in the time of Claudius, proljably by Plautius, to whom the Bodunifirst surrendered, and that it had walls and a castle in the time of Constan-tine, and was strongly fortified. That it was a place of importance in thetime of this latter emperor may be gathered from the quantity of coinswhich are e
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