Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths

Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths
	Museum location in Newport, Wales
Location	Caerleon, Newport, Wales
Coordinates	51°36′36″N 2°57′19″W / 51.61005°N 2.95529°W
Type	Archaeological museum
Owner	Cadw
Website	Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths

The Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths, also known as the Roman Baths Museum, is located in Caerleon in the city of Newport, south-east Wales. It is run by the Welsh historic environment service - Cadw.

Background and history

Roman Wales was the farthest point west that the Roman Empire in Roman Britain extended to, and as a defence point the fortress at Caerleon, built in AD 75, was one of only three permanent Roman Legionary fortresses in Roman Britain. It was occupied and operational for just over 200 years.

The site of the baths was excavated in the late 1970s, and a curator was appointed in 1980 when the site was opened to the public.^[1]

The Roman Baths Museum lies inside what remains of the fortress of Isca Augusta close to the National Roman Legion Museum. The baths museum has a covered walkway over part of the remains of the military bath house. There was a frigidarium, tepidarium and caldarium, as well as an open-air swimming pool.^[2]

The baths museum is administered by Cadw, as are the remains of Isca Augusta within a short walk of the baths museum:

The most complete Roman amphitheatre in Britain
Sections of the fortress walls
The only remains of a Roman legionary barracks on view anywhere in Europe at Prysg Field

There were over 40,000 visitors to the Baths in 2012.^[3]

References

^ Sebastian Rahtz; Paul Reilly (2 September 2003). Archaeology and the Information Age. Routledge. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-134-89835-0.
^ "Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths". Retrieved 2018-01-27.
^ "Caerleon's Roman baths get record visitor figures". South Wales Argus. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

External links

Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths - Cadw

[RahtzReilly2003-1] Sebastian Rahtz; Paul Reilly (2 September 2003). Archaeology and the Information Age. Routledge. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-134-89835-0.

[Cadw-2] "Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths". Retrieved 2018-01-27.

[3] "Caerleon's Roman baths get record visitor figures". South Wales Argus. 15 December 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

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v t e Roman visitor sites in the UK
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Forts & military	Ambleside Roman Fort Arbeia Banks East Turret Binchester Birdoswald Burgh Castle Caerleon Chesters Derventio Dover Castle Eboracum Hardknott Roman Fort Housesteads Lancaster Lunt Carvoran Roman Army Museum Over Burrow (Lancaster) Pevensey Castle Portchester Castle Ribchester Richborough Segedunum Venta Icenorum Vindolanda
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Other sites	Bath Roman Baths Benwell Roman temple Caerleon Roman Baths Chester Roman Amphitheatre Jewry Wall, Leicester Welwyn Roman Baths York Roman Baths

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