07-19-2012, 01:39 AM
Nick.
When you go to Chesters Fort you will see the best example of a Roman bath house in Britain, however when you have viewed the baths come back up the steps and turn right and go to the river bank turn right again and view the bath house from the river bank.
What you will see as a foundation are very large butresses but if you keep looking right you will see that these butresses continue under the Severan bridge ramp.
Then you must ask yourself just why do they do this and the answer is that this Severan bath house is indeed built upon a Hadrianic Grannery, this may sound very strange for here we have a fort on Hadrian's Wall that has an external grannery by a river bank.
When you go to Chesters Fort you will see the best example of a Roman bath house in Britain, however when you have viewed the baths come back up the steps and turn right and go to the river bank turn right again and view the bath house from the river bank.
What you will see as a foundation are very large butresses but if you keep looking right you will see that these butresses continue under the Severan bridge ramp.
Then you must ask yourself just why do they do this and the answer is that this Severan bath house is indeed built upon a Hadrianic Grannery, this may sound very strange for here we have a fort on Hadrian's Wall that has an external grannery by a river bank.
Brian Stobbs
