The caldarium revealed a drain that conducted water from the hypocaust floor, that conducted heat for a bath or room in a Roman home.
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The building was heated by a hypocaust, a system of burning coal and wood underneath the ground to heat water provided by a dedicated aqueduct.
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Many rely on slope processes, however other instances where deposits containing material later than overlying deposits occur in such features as drains or hypocaust systems.
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Above the basement is a representative room with subfloor heating ( " hypocaust " ) which was decorated with murals and had glazed windows.
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Villas were often furnished with plumbed bathing facilities and many would have had an under-floor central heating known as the " hypocaust ".
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Its interior cavity, leading to a often convoluted flue system, channels the hot ducted heating system similar to the hypocaust system used by ancient Romans.
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The Grade II listed remains of a hypocaust, comprising the rubble columns and tiled floor from Slack Roman Fort were moved and reconstructed in Ravensknowle Park.
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At the far north end of the bath complex was the stoke-room or praefurnium, which contained the wood-fired furnaces of the hypocaust system.
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The technology developed for the baths was especially impressive, especially the widespread use of the hypocaust for one of the first types of central heating developed anywhere.
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In the early medieval Alpine upland, a simpler central heating system where heat travelled through underfloor channels from the furnace room replaced the Roman hypocaust at some places.
