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Monument details

Summary

A bath 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 bath is from the 5th phase and was added immediately east of the warm room. This room is 2.50m by 1m and the walls consisted of three masonry elements; chalk, flint-built and yellow mortar-bonded.

If the furnace was operational during this time, the bath would have been a hot bath

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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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.

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