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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1498 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Warm room (tepidarium) of Ebbsfleet Roman Villa Bath-House |
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Summary
A warm room (tepidarium) was identified during excavations in advance of the CTRL HS1. The remains form part of a detached bath-house built after 160AD and added to in several phases by the first half of the 3rd century (1). This warm room is from the earliest phase. The room was a rectangular block measuring 20.0 m by 4.0 m.
The external wall was 0.80 m thick with alternating courses of chalk blocks and tile, bonded with opus signinum and filled inside with a flint rubble core. A flint floor surface extended across most of the room.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6162 7410 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ67SW |
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| Parish: | SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FLOOR (Roman - 150 AD to 250 AD)
- WALL (Roman - 150 AD to 250 AD)
Full description
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A warm room (tepidarium) was identified during excavations in advance of the CTRL HS1. The remains form part of a detached bath-house built after 160AD and added to in several phases by the first half of the 3rd century (1). This warm room is from the earliest phase. The room was a rectangular block measuring 20.0 m by 4.0 m.
The external wall was 0.80 m thick with alternating courses of chalk blocks and tile, bonded with opus signinum and filled inside with a flint rubble core. A flint floor surface extended across most of the room.
<1> Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture, 2010, Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document). SKE31245.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010. Settling the Ebbsfleet Valley. CTRL Excavations at Springhead and Northfleet, Kent. The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape. |
Related records
| TQ 67 SW 1423 | Part of: Northfleet Roman villa bath-house site (Monument) |
