Summary
This 'room' in the northern bathhouse of the villa is actually a rectangular area that formed a continuation of the north wing corridor / portico, and opened out into a sort of covered hall(see75542 for 25b) adjacent to the bath-house, in the final phase of the villa.
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Monument Types
- VILLA (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)
Description
This 'room' in the northern bathhouse of the villa is actually a roughly rectangular area that formed a continuation of the north wing corridor / portico, and opened out into a sort of covered hall adjacent to the bath-house, in the final phase of the villa.
The western part of the area contains a number of robbed-out walls from earlier phases of the north bath-house. These were marked out with concrete slabs (bordered with concrete kerbing) until 2013. There are stone steps (built in the 1860s) running down from the end of the west corridor, to a corridor marked by two east-west aligned walls. The south revetlement wall is Victorian. There are two column bases laid on the north wall of this area, which survives stylobite pediment . Stone steps up to the bath-house (Room 21) are currently covered by a wooden staircase with handrail.
The eastern end of this unit has a tarmac path on its north and east boundary and fragments of in situ mosaic survive under the tarmac path. Most of the areas between the marked-out walls and the extant walls are laid to grass. [SNA62028]
In 2013, National Trust archaeologists with volunteers and students from Birmingham University excavated Room 20 and took up the concrete interpretation installed by Sir Ian Richmond in 1963. This revealed the contiguous south ends of the earlier 4th century North Bath House caldarium and tepidarium. The western room caldarium (Room 19b) was semi-circular and the eastern room (19c) had a rectangular end and was interpreted as the tepidarium [SNA66382]
References
- SNA62028 - National Trust Report: Atkins Heritage. 2007. Chedworth Roman Villa Conservation Management Plan Gazetteer.
- SNA66382 - Unpublished document: Papworth Martin. 2014. Chedworth Roman Villa North Range ph. 1: Excavation of part of the early baths within R 20.
Other Statuses and References
- HER/SMR Reference (External): 547
Associated Events
- ENA119 - Archaeological Intervention, Goodburn's 1986 Excavation and consolidation of Garden Portico, Chedworth Roman Villa (Ref: INT 46)
- ENA14 - Field Survey, Wall Elevation Recording of Room 20, Chedworth Roman Villa (Ref: INT 101)
- ENA37 - Archaeological Intervention, Buried Mosaic Survey, Chedworth Roman Villa (Ref: INT 118)
- ENA4065 - Archaeological Intervention, Richmond's Excavation of Room 20, Chedworth Roman Villa
- ENA4066 - Archaeological Intervention, Antiquarian Use of Room 20 as a Bowling Alley, Chedworth Roman Villa
- ENA7918 - Archaeological Intervention, North Range Research Project Room 20 and Corridor season 1 August 2013
Associated Finds
None Recorded