Panel 1

  1. Dobunnic coin, showing stylized horse and wheel
  2. Dobunni – the name of the tribe occupying Gloucestershire at the time of the Roman conquest
  3. Coin of Allectus, Emperor of Britain, AD 293-296
  4. Romanesque head found on Debenhams site, now in the City Museum
  5. Decorative panel, repeated six times, with designs from Iron Age, Saxon, Norman and other early sources
  6. Figure of a Roman legionary soldier
  7. Figure of an early British chieftain
  8. Coin of Eisu, Dobunnic chieftain, circa AD 30-34
  9. Coin of Nerva, who founded the colonia of Glevum, AD 96-98

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    Panel 2

  10. Repeat panel – with pattern from Bronze Age pottery, now in the City Museum
  11. Tombstone of Rufus Sita, Roman cavalryman, found at Wotton Pitch. Now in the City Museum.
  12. Eagle standard of Roman legion
  13. The Birdlip Mirror, native Celtic, circa AD 25. Now in the City Museum.
  14. Bodvoc, name of Dobunnic chieftain
  15. Shaft of Anglo-Saxon cross, circa AD 900, found at St. Oswald’s Priory. Now in the City Museum.
  16. Coin of Henry III – ‘Ricard on Glov’ means ‘minted by Richard at Gloucester’
  17. Coin of William the Conqueror, minted at Gloucester
  18. Severn Bore water pattern

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    Panel 3

  19. Osric, chieftain of the local Saxon people – the Hwicce – and founder of St. Peter’s’ Abbey, now the Cathedral, circa AD 681
  20. Ethelflæda, daughter of Alfred the Great, the Lady of the Mercians. Gloucester was called a Royal City in her reign
  21. Old Gloucester heifer and Cotswold ram lamb. Folk Museum
  22. Glevum (the Roman name for Gloucester) one of four coloniae in Britain. Coloniae had the highest status of Roman provincial towns
  23. Coin of Allectus, Emperor of Britain, AD 293-296
  24. Dobunnic coin showing stylized horse and wheel
  25. Terminal of ceremonial sceptre in native Celtic style, 1st century AD. Found in Sainsbury’s site, now in the City Museum.
  26. Repeat panel – with pattern from a Roman milestone, now in the City Museum.

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    Panel 4

  27. Norman capital from the Cathedral crypt
  28. Coin of Eisu, Dobunnic chieftain, circa AD 30-34
  29. Roman antefix (roof ornament) probably from a tomb. Found near the Cathedral
  30. Roman votive tablet to Mercury and Rosmerta, found at 96 Northgate St. Now in the City Museum.
  31. Coin of Nerva, who found the colonia of Glevum, AD 96-98
  32. Coin of Henry III
  33. Lamprey and eel basket. Folk Museum.
  34. Repeat panel – with pattern from Beaker period pottery
  35. City coat of arms, granted under Henry VIII, 1538
  36. City coat of arms, granted under Cromwell, 1652
  37. “Success to the Cultivation of Waste Lands” legend and plough motif from local token coin, 1795

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    Panel 5

  38. Figure of an abbot of Gloucester of the late Middle Ages
  39. Figure of a Norman soldier
  40. Symbol of agriculture
  41. Coin of William the Conqueror, inscribed Pillemus Rex I (P is a Runic character used for W)
  42. Gleaweceastre, Saxon name for Gloucester
  43. Severn oracle and paddle
  44. Token commemorating the start of work on the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, now in the City Museum.
  45. Repeat panel – with pattern from Roman mosaic floor

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    Panel 6

  46. Cup from Roman mosaic found at the Dolphin Inn (42 Northgate Street), used here upside-down as a symbol of the city’s bell-founding industry. Now in the City Museum.
  47. City Guild Merchant seal, circa 1200
  48. Repeat panel – with formalized sun motif
  49. Gloucestershire Old Spot “Chedworth Pansy 22nd”. Folk Museum