Identifier: archaeologiacant22kent_0 (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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in with earth, broken tile, flints and mortarrubbish to a depth of 3 ft. 8 in. Upon the top of this debris a newfloor of white coarse concrete had been laid nearly level with theadjoining corridor (No. 31). The writer suspecting the presence ofolder work below decided to clear out the area to its base, whichresulted in the exposure of the extensive hypocaust seen on Plate Gr. 32. The stokehole, 11 ft. 7 in. by 8 ft. 5 in. To the east of it isa hypocaust 12 ft. by 7 ft. 5 in., roughly built with low walls of tiles. 33. The great hypocaust. At the bottom of Plate Gr may beseen the passage, 2 ft. 1 in. wide, leading to it from the stokehole,the south end of which shews the springing tiles of the arch inposition. The block of masonry on either side of the passage issimply the filling in with broken tiles set in clay of two recesses thatwere probably used as receptacles for charcoal for the supply of thefurnace. To facilitate description the hypocaust may be dividedinto three compartments.
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THE ROMAN VILLA. AT DARENTH. 61 (1) That next the stokehole arch is 10 ft. square, and containstwenty-two pilae of tiles, some of the pilae on the east side havingbeen laid upon a slanting structure built with chalk. The west wallof this compartment was broken down, but as the pilae on that sidereached to the outer face of the wall, there was probably a passagehere for hot air into No. 35. , (2) Compartment, 19 ft. 8 in. by 10 in., on either side was one ofthose curious slanting chalk structures, each 6 ft. 8 in. long, 3 ft. 8 in.wide, and 14 in. high at the junction with the wall. (3) Compartment, 7 ft. by 10 ft., fitted with pilae. In bothcorners of the south wall were smoke flues of imbrex tiles. In orderto keep one of these flues in position, tiles were built up from thefloor of the hypocaust to support it, sufficient space being leftbetween them to enable the fumes to ascend. On referring to Plate Gr the remains of a wall with a division inthe centre 16 in. wide, for the passage

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