More information : (NY 99301337) Bath (GS) (Remains of) (1)
The Bowes bath, as usual, lay outside the fort. It was floored with
large grooved tiles, and bore traces of destruction by fire, and
subsequent reconstruction. An Altar from Bowes, now at Trinity
College, Cambridge, commemorates the restoration of the baths by the
1st Cohort of the Thracians, when Virus Lupus was governor. (2)
Partially excavated in the 19th century and found to be 30 ft long
and 20 ft wide, with an entrance on the S. The site of this
structure is now marked by an overgrown depression. (3)
The remains of the bath-house consist of the lower courses
of its W, and part of the S walls, 0.5m high, within a roughly
rectangular depression 2.0m deep. Two other short wall fragments
occur at the NW angle and part way along the N side, both 1.5m high.
See photograph. Published survey (25") correct. (4)
NY 992134 Roman fort, Lavatrae. Scheduled. (5)
Bath house at NY 9930 1337 as described by Authority 4; no change.
Surveyed at 1:500 by RCHME as part of the survey at Bowes Fort and
environs. Full information is available in the NMR archive. (6)
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