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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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Instances/Examples (36)

Context Record
Monument Type MEX840 Roman villa at Hill Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MEX26844 Central Witham (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1003 Chinnell's Field, Wendens Ambo (Monument)
Monument Type MEX19027 Church of St Mary the Virgin (Listed Building)
Monument Type MEX35701 Colchester - Castle Park (Monument)
Monument Type MEX36127 Colchester - Hollytrees Meadow (Monument)
Monument Type MEX36684 Colchester - Long Wyre Street (Monument)
Monument Type MEX36960 Colchester - Trinity Street and Sir Isaacs Walk (Monument)
Monument Type MEX35995 Colchester (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1032089 Culver Street, Colchester - Roman features (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1038121 Former Globe Hotel, 71 North Station Road, Colchester (Monument)
Monument Type MEX14524 Further Romano-British occupation sites associated with Durolitum (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1037882 Geophysics and evaluation at Cowshed Field, Little Sampford (Monument)
Monument Type MEX38410 Gt Chesterford: Roman masonry building, Stukeley's "Templi U (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1038132 Kell Field, Petches Yew Farm, Finchingfield (Monument)
Monument Type MEX42238 Kirkee McMunn Barracks (Monument)
Monument Type MEX12087 Little Oakley Roman villa, Seaview Avenue (Monument)
Monument Type MEX5345 Possible medieval tile kiln at Claypits Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MEX26056 Revoked - see 19117 (Revoked Record)
Monument Type MEX1032528 Rivenhall Roman Villa (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1037093 Roman bath house at Caesaromagus, 'The Mansio Baths', between Mildmay Road and Roman Road, Chelmsford (Monument)
Monument Type MEX18609 Roman cremation cemetery and hypocaust, north of Kennel Lane, Billericay (Monument)
Monument Type MEX18566 Roman features at School Road, Billericay (Monument)
Monument Type MEX16543 Roman house at Red Field, Hadstock, CAMBRIDGESHIRE (Monument)
Monument Type MEX27593 Roman settlement at Greenstead Hall (Monument)
Monument Type MEX5417 Roman villa and associated buildings, The Common, Great Biggins (Monument)
Monument Type MEX7373 Roman Villa at Alresford Lodge (Monument)
Monument Type MEX5695 Roman villa at Further and Hither Brixted Field (Monument)
Monument Type MEX16568 Roman villa, Church Field, Bartlow, CAMBRIDGESHIRE (Monument)
Monument Type MEX16603 Roman villa, Great Copt Hill, Great Bowsers Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1053837 Romano-British bath house in Durolitum, Little London (Monument)
Monument Type MEX14206 Site of a possible Roman villa at Chardwell Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MEX1032102 Site of Roman building, Crouch Street, Colchester (Monument)
Monument Type MEX3763 Site of Roman building, east of Woodhall Farm (Monument)
Monument Type MEX22879 Site of Roman villa, South of Ridgewell (Monument)
Monument Type MEX7367 Wick Farm (Monument)