This is the bath house associated with a Roman villa complex situated in the upper Thames valley, on the Cotswold dip-slope near the parish of Eastleach or Southrop in Gloucestershire. Like most villa bath suites in this region, it likely operated from the later 2nd through 4th centuries AD, providing the standard sequence of cold, warm and hot rooms (frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium) heated by hypocaust for the villa's occupants.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site forms part of the dense pattern of prosperous villa estates along the Cotswold fringes between Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum) and the Thames headwaters, an agriculturally rich landscape that supported one of the highest concentrations of Romano-British villas in Britain. It is not individually distinguished in the published literature, but is representative of the mid-status working estates that underpinned Corinium's regional economy.
Little detail has been formally published for this specific site; it appears in the HER primarily as a cropmark and surface-scatter record of villa buildings with a detached or attached bath block, identified through aerial photography and field walking rather than full excavation. Diagnostic finds typical of such sites in the area — tesserae, painted wall plaster, box-flue tile (tubuli) and roofing material — would be expected, but no major excavation report is known to the author.
This is the bath house associated with a Roman villa complex situated in the upper Thames valley, on the Cotswold dip-slope near the parish of Eastleach or Southrop in Gloucestershire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a bath house site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman villa and associated bath house 450m north west of Lower Field Farm is classified as a Roman bath house — a civilian site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
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