Hot Baths
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Syvanne Aloni
Creators: Syvanne Aloni
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 21, 2021 10:26 AM
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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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/242559905
51.380129221, -2.36105790193
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of The Gainsborough Bath Spa (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Hot Baths located at Aquae Sulis (AD 43 - AD 410)
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archaeological site, settlement-modern, bath, spa
- See Further:
Pleiades
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.
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: 26 September 2023]
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