The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, History, Ancient History, Rome, British

• Author: Charles E. Davis
• ISBN: 1230000144488
• Publisher: VolumesOfValue
• Publication: June 23, 2013
• Language: English

This edition features illustrations and linked Footnotes

Excerpt
Under the foundations of the Abbey house, full 10ft. deep, appear traces of a bath, whose dimensions are 43ft. by 34ft. Within and adjoining to the walls are the remains of twelve pilasters, each measuring 3ft. 6in. on the front of the plinth by a projection of 2ft. 3in. These pilasters seem to have supported a roof.5 This bath stood north and south. To the northward of this room, parted only by a slender wall with an opening of about 10in. in the middle, adjoined a semi-circular bath, measuring from east to west 14ft. 4in., and from the crown of the semi-circle to the partition wall that divides it from the square bath 18ft. 10in.