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Roman London gallery AD 50 – 410

Use the gallery plan and pictures to FIND and DISCUSS the objects in this trail. Read text panels and captions for further information. Encourage enquiry and extend ideas by further questioning. The objects do not need to be seen in number order. We suggest different pupils are given different starting points, in order to spread pupils across the gallery.

Extension Activities • look around and CHOOSE your favourite object. What can you find out about it? • Bring pencils and sketch pads to draw and make notes about your discoveries.

Roman London Gallery trail Roman London Gallery trail for schools

1 Find this bronze 4 This mosaic floor legionary helmet dates to around and discuss the 300 AD. How role of the Roman long might it army. Londinium have taken to was built soon after the Roman Conquest make? Would in AD 43 as a frontier trading town. The it have been first residents were a mixture of soldiers, expensive? travelling merchants and craftspeople. Can you find the hypocaust tiles and work Roman soldiers were responsible for out how Roman central heating would political administration and building as have worked? Look around these rooms well as fighting and policing the town. and discuss similarities and differences between Roman and modern homes. Can you find a toilet in the smallest room? 2 These leather bikini briefs were found by archaeologists 5 There were an enormous when excavating number of different a Roman well in religious beliefs in east London. They Londinium, including were probably worshipping classical worn by a young Roman gods like Jupiter female acrobatic dancer. What might her and Mars, the cult of Isis life have been like? Watch the gladiator (an Egyptian goddess), video, staged at the Guildhall, where the and later Christianity. This remains of Londinium’s amphitheatre were marble head of the god Mithras is from a discovered in 1985. Find the dice and board religion which only men could join. Look games, and discuss similarities to how we around for evidence of burial practices and entertain ourselves today. see if you can find the curse tablets.

3 Romans wore a 6 In this Latin inscription, variety of shoe Tibernius Celerianus styles, including describes himself as hobnailed boots a Londoner and a and flip-flop member of the style sandals. Bellovaci tribe in Some shoes, like this one, had intricate northern France. cut-out designs that would have shown It’s dedicated to Mars off the wearer’s coloured socks. Trades Camulus, a combination of the Roman such as shoemaking, glassmaking and god Mars and the Celtic god Camulus. metalworking took place in workshops There were many migrants in Londinium on the main streets. Imagine shopping from across the Roman Empire. Do you in Londinium. What kind of items do you think their descendants stayed when think were expensive? Roman occupation ended?