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A visit to the Roman Baths and Pump Room will take you through 2,000 years of history. From bath spa, the roman baths and pump room the earliest Roman use of Bath's natural hot waters to the fashionable 18th century elegance of the Georgian Pump Room. The Roman Baths is bath spa, the roman baths and pump room below the modern street level and has four main features, the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman bath house bath spa, the roman baths and pump room and finds from Roman Bath. The Georgian Pump Room is on the ground level.
The Roman Baths Museum contains an important collection of finds bath spa, the roman baths and pump room from the Baths and Temple complex. These range from architectural fragments – from the monument itself – to inscribed altars and offerings to the Goddess bath spa, the roman baths and pump room excavated from the Sacred Spring. The collection includes other finds from in and around the Roman town of Aquae Sulis, among them inscriptions and tomb sculptures recording bath spa, the roman baths and pump room some of the many pilgrims for whom the cure was possibly not successful. Use the links on the right to find out more about some specific items bath spa, the roman baths and pump room or to search our database of artifacts.
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