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The Roman Baths

The Roman Baths. Outside of the Roman Baths. If you recall, this is the Abbey as seen from the Roman Baths. The water is green from the algae growth caused by the heat and daylight.

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The Roman Baths

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  1. The Roman Baths

  2. Outside of the Roman Baths

  3. If you recall, this is the Abbey as seen from the Roman Baths

  4. The water is green from the algae growth caused by the heat and daylight

  5. The thing that looks like books by the back wall, these were box tiles that was used in the vault covering the Baths, being light and strong and providing an insulating layer. Surfaces were combed before the clay was fired to help mortar and plaster adhere. Sometimes stray animals in the tile works would step on the unfired tiles and have their imprints preserved.

  6. The next few pictures are of the pediment of the Temple. This elaborately carved pediment would have been rich in meaning for native and Roman visitors. The powerful face of the Gorgan dominated the Temple precinct from the top of the Temple building.

  7. The King’s Bath

  8. The rust area shows where the water level used to be in the baths

  9. The next pictures are of the ruins of the bath, I tried putting them in order of how I walked through the ruins.

  10. This was the alter for sacrifices to the Goddess Minerva

  11. Relief carving of the goddess Luna which decorated one of the buildings in the Temple precinct. The disc of the moon can be seen behind her head and she holds a whip for driving her chariot across the night sky.

  12. This impressive arched overflow was part of the Roman engineering arrangements which still keep the hot water flowing through the complex today.

  13. This tomb sculpture shows a civilian man wearing a cloak and possibly a document or scroll. This tomb gives archeologists an idea of who lived and/or visited the area.

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