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Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Photo Gallery


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Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

The front entrance to the Corinium Museum on Park Street, just a block from the market place in the centre of Cirencester. The entrance is modelled after a Roman triumphal arch

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

A model of a mounted Roman soldier. The museum has a nice mix of artefacts and exhibits modelling Roman life and times in old Corinium

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Two of the museum's prize posessions are a pair of Roman funeral monuments

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

Grave stone of a Roman legionary showing a mounted soldier in battle

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

The Corinium Museum offers quite a few hands-on opportunities for children and adults. Here a young visitor gets the chance to dress up as a Roman soldier

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

A small open-air courtyard in the middle of the museum shows what a townhouse garden might have looked like in Corinium. Here, gods and godesses adorn the garden walls

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

A replica Roman statue stands in the small garden area

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

There are a number of partial Roman mosaic floors preserved throughout the museum. This one is 2nd century AD, found in Victoria Road, Cirencester during building construction. It shows a stylized flower.

Photo of the Corinium Museum, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

This is the largest Roman column capital known in Britain. It is of the Corinthian order, and highly decorated with plant motifs

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