Ravenglass (Glannaventa) Bath House – Quick Facts

Where

Ravenglass, Cumbria Map & Website

When

• Built near the Roman fort of Glannaventa (market of the shore) and harbour.
• Turf and timber fort built around AD 130 during Hadrian’s reign.
• Stone fort walls built in the early 3rd century.
• Fort garrisoned by the Cohors Primae Aelia Classica (First Cohort of the Aelian Fleet).

What Remains

Bath House Walls

• Some of the highest Roman walls in Britain at 12-13 feet.
• Two distinct rooms – one enclosed within four walls.
• A doorway with a partial arch.
• Plaster finish on the upper half of one brick wall.
• A niche in the wall of the apodyterium (change room).
• Partial buttresses along two of the walls, once necessary to hold up the heavy vaulted roof of the bathhouse.