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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Gloucester History I
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


In AD 681 Osric, viceroy to King Ethelred of Mercia, established what in Gloucester ?

 

School
Castle
Further fortifications
St Peters Abbey

 After the Normainvasion the Abbey grew from 10 brethren to

 

Over 1000
Over 100
Nearly 50
Over 500
The area at Gloucester was important to the Romans as it was

 

Remote
Near Wales
Near Cirencester
Severn was crossable & navigable

 In 1088 the Abbey at Gloucester was ?

 

Consecrated
Destroyed by fire
Sacked
Dissolved
Who establsihed Gloucester as an early inland port ?

 

Romans
Saxons
Welsh
Celts

 In AD 49 the main army encampment was established at ?

 

Gt Witcombe
Chedworth
Kingsholme
Kingswood
In the 9th Century St Peters Abbey was

 

Destroyed
Burnt Down
Sacked
Replaced with stone

 The Roman name given to Gloucester was ?

 

Aquae Sulis
Glevum
Verulanium
Corinium
Barnwood is a classic archeological site with remains traced to just after the

 

Ice Age
Stone Age
Iron Age
Bronze Age

 In its early history which commodities made Gloucester important ?

 

Beef / Lamb
Wool / Iron
Wool / Wood
Wool / Lamb


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