Bath Time

For many, many years I have wanted to visit the Roman baths in.. Bath (Aquae Sulis in Roman times). We took the time between grandparent duties to spend a couple of nights here. The complex and displays are far more comprehensive than I thought. Main pic is, of course, the well known main bath (1.5 metres deep, fed by constant hot water from the underground naturally heated spring). It is green because in Roman times the roof over the pool (at roughly the height of where I was looking down from the higher walkway) would have kept the water clear. Open to the elements, sunlight allows the algae to prosper. It is lead-lined to keep it water-tight, another Roman skill.  The site is bigger than it looks because the buildings around house more of the excavated rooms and artefacts. Additional pics are of the head of Minerva found at the site, the Pulteney Bridge, a Roman built (originally) but updated bridge that has shops along it (rather like the old original London Bridge), examples of the tiled construction underfloor of the heating system (hypocaust) for the hot rooms (caldarium) and the Royal Crescent (bit disappointing, due to its shabbiness).
Another tick off the “Living List”.