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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Context Record
Monument Type MNF8675 Caister on Sea Late Roman 'Saxon Shore' fort and Middle to Late Saxon cemetery (Monument)
Monument Type MNF29034 Cropmarks of Roman villa and possible temple (Cropmark and Earthwork)
Monument Type MNF3743 Gayton Thorpe Roman Villa (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4251 Multi-period finds (Find Spot)
Monument Type MNF41757 Roman aisled building, possible bath house, corn drying ovens and pottery kilns at Fosters End Drove, Blackborough End (Monument)
Monument Type MNF7304 Roman building and hypocaust (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4235 Roman salt works (Monument)
Monument Type MNF24174 Roman settlement and possible Roman pottery kiln (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5852 Roman tesselated floor/hypocaust (Monument)
Monument Type MNF5205 Roman villa and bath house at Little Oulsham Drove (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4921 Roman villa at Glebe Farm, Feltwell (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4790 Site of Iron Age to Roman settlement (Monument)
Monument Type MNF3907 Site of Roman buildings and multi-period finds (Monument)
Monument Type MNF24627 Site of Roman villa (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4709 Site of Roman villa (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4780 Site of Roman villa at 'Sleisham', Little Holme and Late Iron Age to Roman and Middle Saxon finds (Monument)
Monument Type MNF3575 Site of Roman villa, Watery Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MNF38082 Two Oaks Roman Villa (Monument)
Monument Type MNF56561 Undated masonry feature, possible Roman building (Monument)
Monument Type MNF3254 West Newton Roman Villa Site (Monument)
Monument Type MNF4697 Woodcock Hall Iron Age to Roman settlement and Roman forts (Monument)