The Tholos
Three large curved and decorated blocks
supported by a stone column survive from the frieze of a tholos, a
special kind of circular temple, which probably stood to the east
of the Temple of Sulis Minerva.
Visitors pass beneath the tholos blocks as
they descend a staircase in the displays and so they see the
decoration as was intended originally – from below.
Temples like this are known from the eastern
part of the Roman Empire and from Gaul, but this is the only one
known from Roman Britain.