The circular bath

A cold plunge bath was a feature of many Roman bath houses, but rarely on this scale!  Here you could take an invigorating plunge after treatments in the warm and hot rooms – but you probably would not linger!

 

The bath is 1.6 metres deep and on one side has an underwater plinth on which a water feature, probably a fountain, once stood.

Image: the Circular Bath

The circular bath as seen today