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Cirencester Roman Amphitheatre

Cirencester, Gloucestershire

An amphitheatre for 8,000 in the second-biggest town in Roman Britain.

Cirencester, or Corinium, was the second-largest town in Roman Britain, where several Roman roads met. Its amphitheatre, built into the earth, could hold around 8,000 people.

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When
Early 100s AD
Where
51.7100, -1.9700
Group
Roman Britain

Visiting

English Heritage, free. The Corinium Museum has fine mosaics.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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