Thesaurus Term/Concept: HYPOCAUST

Identifier	68967
Class	MONUMENT TYPE
Status	Preferred
Index?	Yes
Scope Note	A Roman under-floor heating system in which hot air heated by a stoked furnace, flowed through channels, created by either raising the floor on pillars of brick and tile or cutting channels into the concrete floor and tiling over them.

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Instances/Examples (8)

Context	Record
Monument Type	MDO6397 East Hemsworth Roman Villa, Witchampton (Monument)
Monument Type	MDO19110 East of Segar's Orchard, London Road, Dorchester; possible Roman building (Monument)
Monument Type	MDO44142 Iron Age or Roman corn drying kilns on Woodcutts Common, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)
Monument Type	MDO19089 Old Grammar School, South Street, Dorchester; Roman building (Monument)
Monument Type	MDO18134 Roman building 5433, Greyhound Yard, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type	MDO18113 Roman Building 5543, Greyhound Yard, Dorchester (Monument)
Monument Type	MWX91 Roman hypocaust found under the stables of Belmont, Lyme Regis (Monument)
Monument Type	MDO6128 Roman villa at Myncen Farm, Gussage St Andrew, Sixpenny Handley (Monument)