ISBN10: 075241965X, ISBN13: 9780752419657, [publisher: Tempus] Softcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Almost the first job I did when I came to Bath in 1980 was to record the Roman and medieval walls of the King's Bath, exposed during works for the new displays in the Roman Baths Museum. The plan was to relay a floor which had been built in the 1880s, and to create modern records of whatever was revealed. Rather good accounts of the Roman structures had been made the first time around, so I had a fair idea of what to expect; but I was puzzled by what I saw when the old floor was taken up. The Roman walls were certainly there, but were obscured by all sorts of other structures-in particular, by a massive wall with semicircular niches in one face. I soon realised that this was the northern wall of the medieval King's Bath, built over the Roman wall: but why did it not appear on the old drawings? It was big enough and clear to see. The notes of the archaeologists at the time make it clear that they realised what was there; but in a sense, they simply did not see it. The Roman remains were what they sought: medi
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ISBN10: 075241965X, ISBN13: 9780752419657, [publisher: The History Press] Softcover Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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