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Monument Number 1013362

Hob Uid: 1013362
Location :
Northumberland
Newbrough
Grid Ref : NY8591071030
Summary : The most likely site for the baths is south of the fort at NY 8591 7103 where a platform has been scooped out of a cultivation terrace; the bath house, as excavated in 1873, would fit exactly into these earthworks. There has been a substantial building hereabouts as a stone lintel, 2.25m by 0.45m by 0.3m, lies immediately to the W.
More information : (Previously recorded by the Ordnance Survey as NY 87 SE 10.1)

(NY 8581 7116) Bath house. (GS). (site of) (1)

Excavated 1873. (2)

The slope W of the fort. (Brocolitia) has been covered with buildings, among them the bath house which was excavated in 1873. No attempt was made to distinguish the periods, but some of the walling was 4th century AD. Coins of Claudius II and Tacitus were found in its core. (3)

No remains recognisable as a bath house. (4)

Bruce in 1874. (5) describes the bath house as 'outside the west rampart', but this position would pose major problems of water supply. He goes on to contradict this position in 1879. (6), when he describes Coventina's Well as higher up the valley from the baths. The most likely situation for the baths is S of the fort at NY 8591 7103 where a platform has been scooped out of a later cultivation terrace; the bath house, as excavated in 1873, would fit exactly into these earthworks. There has been a substantial building hereabouts as a stone lintel, 2.25m by 0.45m by 0.3m, lies immediately to the W. The platform was surveyed at 1:1000 in 1984 as a part of the RCHME survey of Carrawburgh fort, together with a full description; held in the NMR archive. (7)

Scheduled. (9)

The possible building platform, terraced into adjacent cultivated areas as described above, was seen and mapped from air photographs. (10)
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Source details : 6" 1920-46
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Source details : Clayton J Description of Roman remains discovered near to Procolitiaer
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Source details : Bruce JC, 1957, Handbook to the Roman Wall 11th edn
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Source details : F1 RL 22-OCT-1965
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Source details : Bruce JC, 1874, The Wall of Hadrian
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Source details : Bruce JC 1879 Coventina's Fountain at Procolitia on Hadrian's Wall (History Berwickshire Naturalist Field Club 8 1876-8 pp356-71)
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : Iain Sainsbury/10-AUG-1984/RCHME: Carrawburgh Survey
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Source details : 14-Jul-97
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Source Number : 10
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Source details : NMR NY8571/48 (TMG 13889/81) 16-May-1992
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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Bath House
Evidence : Earthwork
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Related Records from other datasets:
External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Northumberland)
External Cross Reference Number : 7930
External Cross Reference Notes :
External Cross Reference Source : Hadrian's Wall Project Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 8571/18
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : ND 28
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 26054
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 87 SE 146
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1873-01-01
End Date : 1873-12-31
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1965-10-22
End Date : 1965-10-22
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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1984-01-01
End Date : 1984-12-31
Associated Activities :
Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1988-01-01
End Date : 1993-08-01
Associated Activities :
Activity type : GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY
Start Date : 1988-01-01
End Date : 1988-12-31
Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2002-01-01
End Date : 2008-12-31