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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1504 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Room 10624 in the Ebbsfleet Roman Villa Bath-House |
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Summary
Room 10624 was a cold room or cold bath in the Roman Villa Bath-House identified during excavations in advance of the CTRL HS1. The wall was 0.55m wide and survived to a height of 0.25m. The walls were flint with yellow mortar. Traces of opus signinum were seen on the internal face of the south wall. The floor was tiled and sealed with opus signinum (1) A ceramic pipe was fed through the west wall and out into a gully.
| 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 200 AD)
- WALL (Roman - 150 AD to 200 AD)
Full description
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Room 10624 was a cold room or cold bath in the Roman Villa Bath-House identified during excavations in advance of the CTRL HS1. The wall was 0.55m wide and survived to a height of 0.25m. The walls were flint with yellow mortar. Traces of opus signinum were seen on the internal face of the south wall. The floor was tiled and sealed with opus signinum (1) A ceramic pipe was fed through the west wall and out into a gully.
<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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture. 2010.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) |
