The Roman Baths and Museum: Official GuideProfessor Cunliffe

by Barry Cunliffe

Extensively illustrated with maps, photographs and drawings. 40p. The springs of Bath were first used by groups of hunters 7000 years ago.

39 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe taught archaeology in the Universities of Bristol and Southampton and was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2008, thereafter becoming Emeritus Professor. He has excavated widely in Britain (Fishbourne, Bath, Danebury, Hengistbury Head, Brading) and in the Channel Islands, Brittany, and Spain, and has been President of the Council for British Archaeology and of the Society of Antiquaries, Governor of the Museum of London, and a Trustee of the British Museum. He is currently a Commissioner of English Heritage.

Reviews

[William Razavi]

More detail than I was expecting about the archaeology and the knowledge recovered therein about the phases of construction from the original sacred spring through the Roman baths and the subsequent remains that are incorporated in the later bath structures.
From the mid 1980s so hopefully there's more to know since then. But this was an intriguing intro to a place that I only knew vague things about.