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  2. Aquae Sulis - Wikipedia

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    The Great Bath. Everything above the level of the pillar bases is of a later date. Aquae Sulis (Latin for Waters of Sulis) was a small town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is the English city of Bath, Somerset. The Antonine Itinerary register of Roman roads lists the town as Aquis Sulis. [1]

  3. Roman Baths (Bath) - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Baths are preserved in four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House, and a museum which holds artefacts from Aquae Sulis. However, all buildings at street level date from the 19th century.

  4. Bath curse tablets - Wikipedia

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    The Roman baths at Bath — the entire structure above the level of the pillar bases is post-Roman. The Roman baths and temple dedicated to the goddess Sulis Minerva in the English city of Bath (founded by the Romans as Aquae Sulis) were excavated between 1978 and 1983 by a team led by Barry Cunliffe and Peter Davenport. [1]

  5. Bath, Somerset - Wikipedia

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    Bath is also the largest city and settlement in Somerset. The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although hot springs were known even before then.

  6. Roman road from Silchester to Bath - Wikipedia

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    The Roman road from Silchester to Bath connected Calleva Atrebatum with Aquae Sulis via Spinae , Cunetio (near Marlborough) and Verlucio (near Sandy Lane). [1] The road was a significant route for east–west travel and military logistics in south-east England during the 1st to 5th centuries.

  7. Sulis - Wikipedia

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    Sulis was the local goddess of the thermal springs that still feed the spa baths at Bath, which the Romans called Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). [5] Sulis was likely venerated as a healing divinity, whose sacred hot springs could cure physical or spiritual suffering and illness. [6]

  8. Devil's Highway (Roman Britain) - Wikipedia

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    From Calleva, this road divided into routes to various other points west, including the road to Aquae Sulis ; Ermin Way to Glevum ; and the Port Way to Sorviodunum (Old Sarum near modern Salisbury). After the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD an earlier Iron Age settlement developed into the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum. It was slightly ...

  9. Curse tablet - Wikipedia

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    In 1979/1980, the Bath curse tablets were found at the site of Aquae Sulis (now Bath in England). [12] All but one of the 130 tablets concerned the restitution of stolen goods. [ 13 ] Over 80 similar tablets have been discovered in and about the remains of a temple to Mercury nearby, at West Hill, Uley , [ 14 ] making south-western Britain one ...