Sainsbury mural

Sainsbury Mural

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

Panel 2

  1. Repeat panel – with pattern from Bronze Age pottery, now in the City Museum
  2. Tombstone of Rufus Sita, Roman cavalryman, found at Wotton Pitch. Now in the City Museum.
  3. Eagle standard of Roman legion
  4. The Birdlip Mirror, native Celtic, circa AD 25. Now in the City Museum.
  5. Bodvoc, name of Dobunnic chieftain
  6. Shaft of Anglo-Saxon cross, circa AD 900, found at St. Oswald’s Priory. Now in the City Museum.
  7. Coin of Henry III – ‘Ricard on Glov’ means ‘minted by Richard at Gloucester’
  8. Coin of William the Conqueror, minted at Gloucester
  9. Severn Bore water pattern

Panel 3

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

Panel 4

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

Panel 5

  1. Figure of an abbot of Gloucester of the late Middle Ages
  2. Figure of a Norman soldier
  3. Symbol of agriculture
  4. Coin of William the Conqueror, inscribed Pillemus Rex I (P is a Runic character used for W)
  5. Gleaweceastre, Saxon name for Gloucester
  6. Severn oracle and paddle
  7. Token commemorating the start of work on the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, now in the City Museum.
  8. Repeat panel – with pattern from Roman mosaic floor

Panel 6

  1. 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.
  2. City Guild Merchant seal, circa 1200
  3. Repeat panel – with formalized sun motif
  4. Gloucestershire Old Spot “Chedworth Pansy 22nd”. Folk Museum

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