Bath house at Carrawburgh (Newbrough and Fourstones)
(Previously recorded by the Ordnance Survey as NY 87 SE 10.1)
(NY 8581 7116) Bath house. (GS). (site of) (1)
The slope west of the fort (Brocolitia) has been covered with buildings, among them the bath house, which was excavated in 1873. No attempt was made to distinguish periods, but some of the walling was 4th century. Coins of Claudius II and Tacitus were found in its core. (2)
Ground generally disturbed, no remains recognisable as a bath house. (3)
Drainage trench excavated by hand, in June 1977, by DoE Direct Labour. Trench ran from south of Mithraeum enclosure southwards to stream (NY 859710). Peaty deposits yielded small quantities of coarse and samian pottery, parts of two shoes and other pieces of leather. The leather was unsuccessfully conserved at Durham University. The southern end of the trench uncovered a flagged path or road running east-west and leading to a building platform. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
A rectangular platform, recessed into the east bank of the burn, and presumed to mark the side of a substantial building, is visible on aerial photographs. It is thought likely to be the Roman bath house excavated in 1873. (6)
Excavated 1873. (7a)
Bruce in 1874. (7c) describes the bath house as 'outside the west rampart', but this position would pose major problems of water supply. He goes on to contradict this position in 1879. (7d), when he describes Coventina's Well as higher up the valley from the baths. The most likely situation for the baths is S of the fort at NY 8591 7103 where a platform has been scooped out of a later cultivation terrace; the bath house, as excavated in 1873, would fit exactly into these earthworks. There has been a substantial building hereabouts as a stone lintel, 2.25m by 0.45m by 0.3m, lies immediately to the W. The platform was surveyed at 1:1000 in 1984 as a part of the RCHME survey of Carrawburgh fort, together with a full description; held in the NMR archive. (7b)
The possible building platform, terraced into adjacent cultivated areas as described above, was seen and mapped from air photographs. (7f)
(NY 8581 7116) Bath house. (GS). (site of) (1)
The slope west of the fort (Brocolitia) has been covered with buildings, among them the bath house, which was excavated in 1873. No attempt was made to distinguish periods, but some of the walling was 4th century. Coins of Claudius II and Tacitus were found in its core. (2)
Ground generally disturbed, no remains recognisable as a bath house. (3)
Drainage trench excavated by hand, in June 1977, by DoE Direct Labour. Trench ran from south of Mithraeum enclosure southwards to stream (NY 859710). Peaty deposits yielded small quantities of coarse and samian pottery, parts of two shoes and other pieces of leather. The leather was unsuccessfully conserved at Durham University. The southern end of the trench uncovered a flagged path or road running east-west and leading to a building platform. (4)
Scheduled. (5)
A rectangular platform, recessed into the east bank of the burn, and presumed to mark the side of a substantial building, is visible on aerial photographs. It is thought likely to be the Roman bath house excavated in 1873. (6)
Excavated 1873. (7a)
Bruce in 1874. (7c) describes the bath house as 'outside the west rampart', but this position would pose major problems of water supply. He goes on to contradict this position in 1879. (7d), when he describes Coventina's Well as higher up the valley from the baths. The most likely situation for the baths is S of the fort at NY 8591 7103 where a platform has been scooped out of a later cultivation terrace; the bath house, as excavated in 1873, would fit exactly into these earthworks. There has been a substantial building hereabouts as a stone lintel, 2.25m by 0.45m by 0.3m, lies immediately to the W. The platform was surveyed at 1:1000 in 1984 as a part of the RCHME survey of Carrawburgh fort, together with a full description; held in the NMR archive. (7b)
The possible building platform, terraced into adjacent cultivated areas as described above, was seen and mapped from air photographs. (7f)
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EXCAVATION, Carrawburgh (Bath-House) 1873
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1965; R Lewis
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Hadrian's Wall Landscape from Chesters to Greenhead 1999; T GATES
WATCHING BRIEF, B6318 'Military Road', Throckley-Gilsland 2007; Pre-Construct Archaeology
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, Carrawburgh (Bath House) ; Durham University
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Carrawburgh Survey ; RCHME
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Hadrian's Wall Project ; RCHME
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1965; R Lewis
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Hadrian's Wall Landscape from Chesters to Greenhead 1999; T GATES
WATCHING BRIEF, B6318 'Military Road', Throckley-Gilsland 2007; Pre-Construct Archaeology
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, NMP 2008; English Heritage
GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, Carrawburgh (Bath House) ; Durham University
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Carrawburgh Survey ; RCHME
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: Hadrian's Wall Project ; RCHME
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