ABSTRACT
The military advances of the early Flavian period caused the release from military government of considerable areas, so giving rise to the constitution of five more civitates: the Dobunni, Durotriges, Dumnonii, Corieltavi and Comovii. The Roman army had arrived in the Cirencester region by ad 44, and an initial division of the tribe after occupation would have been meaningless, so that the arrangements then in force can only reflect what had happened before the Roman conquest. With a fort in or near Dorchester, the mechanics of town formation would almost certainly have followed the course already discussed in connexion with Cirencester. Leicester appears to have been one of the towns in Britain which was not fortified first with earthworks although their existence on a hitherto unexpected alignment cannot be entirely ruled out. The first military occupation at Wroxeter was probably by a cohort of Thracians,212 placed in a fort about a quarter of a mile south of the later town.
