Baths

Name of structure: Baths
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Baths
Country or main area: United Kingdom
Region within country or main area: Hampshire
City or area within region: Silchester
Date of structure: First century AD
Century of structure 1: 1 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Floor and walls of tepidarium
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: Black and white mosaic, wall tesserae smaller than those on floor
Date of mosaic: First century AD
Century of mosaic 1: 1 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site: No
Gold tessera at site: No
Colour tessera at site: No
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 167
See also:
John Hope and Fox, Archaeologia 59 (1905), 352
Boon, Roman Silchester (1957), 109

URLs: http://www.reading.ac.uk/silchester/Guide/sil-guide-public-baths.aspx
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