 Circular Bath  Circular Bath  Heated rooms | The West Baths contains an exceptionally well preserved set of pilae which were piles of tiles through which hot air circulated to heat the floor and walls of the room above. A cold plunge bath was a feature of many Roman bath houses. Here you could take a plunge after treatments in the warm and hot rooms The bath is 1.6 metres deep (same as the Great Bath) and on one side it has an underwater plinth on which a fountain, once stood.
The Heating system was very ingenious.
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