A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may...

The Hypocaust Museum is a museum at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Situated in Verlamium Park, the museum provides in situ conservation and interpretation...

Vitruvius (in his famous book De architectura) to have invented the hypocaust. The hypocaust is an underfloor heating system that was used throughout the Roman...

heated. A fire under the furnace arch provides warm air, conducted to the hypocaust, an underfloor heating system to distribute heat to the caldarium, the...

and private baths and latrines, under-floor heating in the form of the hypocaust, mica glazing (examples in Ostia Antica), and piped hot and cold water...

suites (thermae) and many would have had under-floor heating known as the hypocaust. The late Roman Republic witnessed an explosion of villa construction...

the Roman Empire.The Influence of the Hypocaust System, the Opening Hours and the Bath Temperatures.The Hypocaust system. Page 16. Vitruvius cited by Marcus...

beginning in the Middle Ages. It is a direct descendant of the Roman hypocaust, and due to its slow rate of combustion, it allows people to use smaller...

dining-room. Many of the rooms, particularly the dining rooms were heated by hypocaust. A feature unique in Britain and discovered in 2017 is that a significant...

floor has deteriorated and is missing, with only parts of the hypocaust columns remaining. Hot air circulated through the hypocaust to heat the house....

× 20 cm) that supported a suspended floor of a Roman bath covering a hypocaust cavity through which the hot air would flow. Vitruvii De architectura...

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room, effectively making it a ducted heating system similar to the Roman hypocaust. A separate stove may be used to control the amount of smoke circulating...

conditions of the inhabitants. Foremost among them is the development of the hypocaust, a type of central heating where hot air developed by a fire was channelled...

unusual feature of this west bath suite is that the pilae in the underfloor hypocaust heating system were built from curved roof tiles (imbrices) rather than...

Ancient Roman stamp on a hypocaust brick, used by the third cohort of Roman citizens from Thrace...

historic hammams made use of some version or derivation of the Roman hypocaust underfloor system for heating. A furnace or set of furnaces were located...

the early 4th century, with later 4th-century enlargements. It has a hypocaust heating system and mosaic pavements. It is the only visible Roman town...

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Newgate to the River Dee, where there's also a reconstructed hypocaust system. An original hypocaust system discovered in the 1720s can be seen in the basement...

of the Roman city remain visible, such as parts of the city walls, a hypocaust – still in situ under a mosaic floor, and the theatre, which is on land...

hypocaust in its cellar. The building has four storeys, with a shop at street level and a portion of Chester Rows in the storey above. The hypocaust in...

were pillaged from an earlier Roman construction. The floor over the hypocaust has been worn away by people standing in the centre, mainly to photograph...

construction of public baths. Elite housing in cooler climates might have hypocausts, a form of central heating. The Romans were the first culture to assemble...

found in the room, which was heated as well by its contiguity to the hypocaust of the adjoining chamber, as by a brazier of bronze (foculus), in which...

as multifunctional heating sources. Later evolutions came in the Roman hypocaust and Austro-German cocklestove (kachelofen, literally 'tile oven', or steinofen...

of pipes (called caliducts) in the walls—a system known as a hypocaust. The Roman hypocaust continued to be used on a smaller scale during late Antiquity...

extended between c.240 and 290 AD by the addition of a few new rooms, a hypocaust, and a portico that faced east towards Stane Street. This building became...

tiled, or "tessellated", floors. Details of an underfloor central heating hypocaust can also be seen, featuring both channelled and pillared systems, as can...

shop near Mary's Well in Nazareth. The tunnels were identified as the hypocaust of a bathhouse. Excavations in 1997–98 revealed remains dating from the...