| Exceptionally, new buildings were still going up in this period in Verulamium and Cirencester. |
| The capture of Cirencester, Gloucester and Bath in 577, after the pause caused by the battle of Mons Badonicus, opened the way to the southwest. |
| De Situ Britanniae appears among his references to sources on ancient Britain, usually cited to its emended author, Richard of Cirencester. |
| It has been suggested that the Roman province of Britannia had four archbishops, seated at London, York, Lincoln and Cirencester. |
| By this point, his Richard had become conflated with the historical Richard of Cirencester. |
| Consequently, in 879 the Viking army left Chippenham and made its way to Cirencester. |
