Baths

Name of structure: Baths
Extended name of structure:
Type of structure: Baths [in a villa]
Country or main area: United Kingdom
Region within country or main area: Lincolnshire
City or area within region: Greetwell Fields
Date of structure: Fourth century AD ?
Century of structure 1: 4 AD
Century of structure 2:
Specific place of mosaic: Walls
Brief descriptive contents of mosaic: 'A dado of tesserae went round the bathroom'
Date of mosaic: Fourth century AD?
Century of mosaic 1: 4 AD
Century of mosaic 2:
Silver tessera at site:
Gold tessera at site:
Colour tessera at site:
Were other materials found at site (i.e., glass cakes)?
Has analysis been done?
Samples taken from where?
Excavation and restoration campaigns:
Bibliography of mainly technical resources:

Sear, Frank B., Roman Wall and Vault Mosaics (Heidelberg: F. H. Kerle Verlag, 1977), 167
See also:
Venables, Rev. Precentor, 'Recent Roman Discoveries in Lincoln', in Archaeological Journal, 41 (1884),  313-21, p. 321 contains a description of the site by Dr. ONiell of Lincoln
Neal, D.S. and S. R. Cosh, Roman Mosaics of Britain, Volume 1, Northern Britain incorporating the Midlands and East Anglia (Society of Antiquaries, 2002) 
Jones, Michael J., D. Stocker and A. Vince, The City by the Pool (Oxford, 2003), see RAZ 7.23 on the CD that comes with the volume
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Comments: It has been suggested that it is the palace of the Roman Governor of the later Roman province ofBritannia Secunda. Neal dates the mosaics to the 4th century but suggests there may have been an earlier building perhaps a villa on the site.

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