Heating
The Hypocaust system was the most common way that Roman Baths would be heated. Put simply the Baths were heated from a furnace below. The System would work by the room to be heated would be placed upon a series of short Pillars, so that the space underneath it could be filled with hot gasses from a furnace outside. The series of pillars have led floors of the baths being described as' suspended'.
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A - Furnace
B - Under floor chamber C - Columns of tiles supporting floor D - Bridging tiles E - Floor of room F- Box shaped tiles Cutaway diagram of a
Roman hypocaust system (underground heating).
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