Date: 2003
Description: This was the smallest room of the bath house at Whitley Grange Roman villa. It was used as a cold plunge bath and its walls were lined with fine Roman concrete (opus signinum) with a roll moulding to the floor. The floor itself was lined with tiles and in one corner was a lead drain. However, the room could not originally have been used for this purpose because when it was first built it only had walls on three sides. It may have been a vestibule (entrance area) to the bath house but its exact function is unclear. (Image kindly supplied by Dr Roger White).
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