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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1502 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Room 10509 in the Ebbsfleet Roman Villa Bath-House |
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Summary
Room 10509 is 3m square, surrounded by ragstones and ceramic walls bonded with yellow mortar (1). Wall survived to a height of 0.70m with a width of 0.60m. The internal face of the wall was coated in opus signinum and a layer of red-painted plaster. A tile and opus signinum bench or step was built agains the internal south wall. The floor was tiled and mostly survived intact.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6161 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 200 AD)
- WALL (Roman - 150 AD to 200 AD)
Full description
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Room 10509 is 3m square, surrounded by ragstones and ceramic walls bonded with yellow mortar (1). Wall survived to a height of 0.70m with a width of 0.60m. The internal face of the wall was coated in opus signinum and a layer of red-painted plaster. A tile and opus signinum bench or step was built agains the internal south wall. The floor was tiled and mostly survived intact.
<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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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) |
