Caerleon Amphitheatre Baths

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NPRN310464
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Awdurdod Unedol (Lleol)Casnewydd
Hen SirSir Fynwy
CymunedCaerleon
Math O SafleBADDONAU
CyfnodRhufeinig
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Fragments of a bath building were uncovered in the course of the excavation of the Caerleon amphitheatre in the 1920s. The baths re-dated the construction of the amphitheatre in the late first century, when they were modified, before being at least partly demolished by the beginning of the third century.
The baths lay within the extramural settlement or CANABAE (NPRN 301891), that ringed the fortress proper (NPRN 95647). There were several other monumental buildings in the area around the amphitheatre (NPRN 95650), including the temple of Diana, and it is likely that the bath building fragments were part of a larger complex.

Source: Wheeler & Wheeler in Archaeologia second series XXVIII (1928), 144-6

J.Wiles & B.A.Malaws, 03 March 2004.