Thesaurus Term/Concept: HYPOCAUST

Identifier 68967
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Preferred
Index? Yes
Scope Note A Roman under-floor heating system in which hot air heated by a stoked furnace, flowed through channels, created by either raising the floor on pillars of brick and tile or cutting channels into the concrete floor and tiling over them.

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Context Record
Monument Type MNT9056 Mansfield Woodhouse Roman Villa - "Basilica" building (Element)
Monument Type MNT9055 Mansfield Woodhouse Roman Villa - Corridor Building (Element)
Monument Type MNT8551 POSSIBLE HYPOCAUST AT WESTWOOD FARM, TUXFORD (Element)
Monument Type MNT5207 Remains of hypocaust ? found 1937-8 in back garden of No. 5 Beechdale Road. (1) (Element)
Monument Type MNT9254 South range with hypocaust, Epperstone (Element)
Monument Type MNT9200 Wood Meadow Roman Villa, Thurgarton: hypocaust/bath house (Element)