"Recent excavations on a monumental bath-house at Carlisle Cricket Club" with Frank Giecco

Between 2017 and 2024 nine phases of excavation were undertaken as part of a large community archaeology project at Carlisle Cricket Ground. The site is adjacent to the river Eden and close to Stanwix Roman fort. At least five main phases of Romano-British occupation have recorded on the site dating from the Hadrianic period to the early fifth century. The Hadrianic phase of a bathhouse is heavily truncated a monumental Severan building of the same function, measuring over 50m by 55m, which replaced it. This building is the largest of its kind on the Northern frontier. It has a very unusual plan, with no obvious comparisons in the province of Britannia. The building is constructed using vaulting tubes and has produced forty hypocaust tiles stamped ‘IMP’. The high status of the building is highlighted by its painted wall plaster, sculpture and finds assemblage. The latter includes a large and internationally…