Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Roman Bath-House, Tremadoc
Porthmadog, Gwynedd, Wales
A scheduled monument in Porthmadog, Gwynedd, recorded as Bath House (Roman).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Bath House
- Period
- Roman
- Community
- Porthmadog
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 52.93921, -4.14821
- SAM number
- CN174
- Cadw record number
- 2444
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 119 Snowdon (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Monument.
A Roman bath-house, dated by excavation in 1908 to a period starting in the second century AD and continuing into the fourth. Six rooms were identified and two of them contained hypocausts. There are no surviving upstanding remains of this monument.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of Roman remains. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- 21 Y Graig (Sunnyside)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- 20 Y Graig (Sunnyside)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- 19 Y Graig (Sunnyside)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- 10 Y Graig (Sunnyside)No class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.