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Hot Baths

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Syvanne Aloni

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jun 21, 2021 10:26 AM — History

tags: Mosaic

Remains of a large building and baths uncovered between Bilbury Lane and Lower Borough Walls, beneath what is now known as the Gainsborough Spa in Aquae Sulis, modern-day Bath.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/242559905

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.380129221, -2.36105790193

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of The Gainsborough Bath Spa (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Hot Baths makes connections with:

Hot Baths located at Aquae Sulis (AD 43 - AD 410)

Hot Baths receives connections from:

None

Place type:
archaeological site, settlement-modern, bath, spa

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

According to La Trobe-Bateman and Niblett, this building was composed of at least seven rooms. One of these had a pillared hypocaust and a geometric mosaic. To the west of the building was a 3m-wide road that led towards the temple precinct.

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Suggested citation:
Syvanne Aloni, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hot Baths : a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/242559905> [accessed: 19 September 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/242559905 |title=Places: 242559905 (Hot Baths ) |author=Aloni, S. |accessdate=September 19, 2024 2:22 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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