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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1499 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cold room (frigidarium) of Ebbsfleet Roman Villa Bath-House |
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Summary
A cold room (frigidarium) 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 cold room is from the earliest phase though possibly later than the hot room.
Only the southern wall foundation of the cold room remained extant, the north and west walls having been removed or demolished. There was use of opus signinum but no trace of a heating system in this room.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6161 7409 |
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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 cold room (frigidarium) 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 cold room is from the earliest phase though possibly later than the hot room.
Only the southern wall foundation of the cold room remained extant, the north and west walls having been removed or demolished. There was use of opus signinum but no trace of a heating system in this 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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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) |
