Bath and Aquae Sulis, Hardian Wall

Bath and Aquae Sulis is a well-preserved Roman baths complex that was made for public bathing and nowdays is situated in the English city of Bath. The Roman Baths, where are four main features, are below the modern street level. They are: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum that holds artifacts and finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century.

The first shrine was built by Celts at the site of a hot springs and it was dedicated to goddess Sulis, for Romans Minerva. It is described how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first baths. The name was continuously used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis (literally, "the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was finished during the last 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the hot spring with a stone chamber lined with lead. In the second century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building and included a hot bath, a warm bath, and a cold bath. After the Romans abandoned Britain they fell into disrepair and were eventually lost because of flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests that the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.

The waters at Bath became well-known for being able to cure all illnesses that is why many people travelled to Bath. Nowdays, there is a museum and a spa.

Hadrain Wall

In AD 122 emperor Hadrain started to bulid a stone and turf fortification to save Roman Britain from raiding Picts.

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