Semicircular, now broken into four fragments. Modern initials, HD HP, with cross-hatching have been cut near the top. The centre of the relief is occupied by an enthroned deity, apparently female, holding with her right hand an object now indistinguishable in her lap. Her left arm is raised, as if it once held a sceptre or the like. Over her left shoulder are seen the head and left shoulder of a draped attendant. To right a helmeted horseman rides to the right. His right hand held reins, now seen crossing the horse's neck. At knee-level is shown a round shield, apparently held by his left hand. The mane and tail of the horse are prominent, even exaggerated. To left of the deity is seen the standing figure of the dedicator in tunic and cloak. What is left of the hair suggests that he may once have been wreathed in order to sacrifice. His right arm is extended to pour a libation on to a small altar. Further to the left the space for a second feature is defined by two vertical cuts, weathering having obliterated whatever was contained therein.
W 0.381 × H 0.254 × D 0.064 m.
Said to have come from Symonds Hall Hill (ST 782 959) in Kingscote parish but may have come from Roman town at The Chessalls, a large unwalled Roman settlement with at least seventy five buildings (RCHM Glos. i 70-72).
By 1795 it was built into the barn of Calcot Farm, Newington Bagpath.
Now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. On its removal from the barn a replica was put in its place.
Julius willingly fulfilled (his vow).
[RIB + add.] Perhaps Tullus (Alföldy, Review) or Iullus (M. W. C. H.), but Iulius is quite often found independently as a name.
Baddeley Bristol and Glos. AST 47 (1925) 354 with pl.
Passmore Bristol and Glos. AST 60 (1938) 347 pl. iv.