Vestiges d'un hypocalt (système de chauffage au sol) dans la salle de bains de la maison du commandant à l'intérieur du fort romain de Chesters, mur d'Hadrien, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
3780 x 2665 px | 32 x 22,6 cm | 12,6 x 8,9 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
10 juin 1993
Lieu:
Chesters Roman Fort, Hadrian's Wall, Chollerford, Hexham, Northumberland, England, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
Remains of a hypocaust (underfloor heating system) in the bath suite of the commandant's house inside Chesters Roman fort, Hadrian's Wall, England, UK. The raised floor of stone slabs is supported on a mix of pilae (stacks of tiles) & stone piers, possibly re-used columns. Hot air from an external charcoal furnace was circulated under the floors of the bath suite & up through the walls in flues of box tiles called tubuli. The commandant's house is immediately E of the headquarters building in the centre of the fort & just SW of the east gate. Chesters sits astride Hadrian's Wall with three of its four gates (N, W & E) opening into enemy territory N of the Wall. It is the best preserved example of a Roman cavalry fort in Britain, one of eleven permanent troop bases added to Hadrian's Wall soon after it was first built in AD122-23. The fort was occupied for some 300 years, this bath suite was a later addition to the commander's well-appointed quarters.
