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Monument details

Summary

Room 10563 in the Roman Villa Bath-House was identified during excavations in advance of the CTRL HS1. This room was created when room 10697 was expanded. This expansion increased the room size to measure 3.50 m by 3.70 m.(1). The flint ledge or wall in the centre of the room was also extended into an L-shape. The mortar and hypocaust, absent in Room 10697, indicate a change of function to a hot room, requiring the room to be expanded. Painted wall plaster found within room 10563 suggests that the room was decorated.

Monument Types

• FLOOR (Roman - 150 AD to 200 AD)
• WALL (Roman - 150 AD to 200 AD)

Full description

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Room 10563 in the Roman Villa Bath-House was identified during excavations in advance of the CTRL HS1. This room was created when room 10697 was expanded. This expansion increased the room size to measure 3.50 m by 3.70 m.(1). The flint ledge or wall in the centre of the room was also extended into an L-shape. The mortar and hypocaust, absent in Room 10697, indicate a change of function to a hot room, requiring the room to be expanded. Painted wall plaster found within room 10563 suggests that the room was decorated.

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 The Late Iron Age, Roman, Saxon, and Medieval Landscape (Unpublished document).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