HYPOCAUST HEATING IN DOMESTIC ROOMS IN ROMAN BRITAIN

Abstract

SummaryThe development of hypocausts heating domestic rooms is traced from the late first to the later third century. A category of hypocausta sited adjacent to major rooms and heating them indirectly is referred to in letters of the Younger Pliny and is identified in Romano‐British house plans of the first and second century. The function of domestic rooms with hypocausts and of other rooms in a limited number of houses is discussed.