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Baths of La Planchette

Contributor: Yichen Liu
Published: 2021-04-21
Modified: 2025-06-29

Province

Province Description

Ancient Roman colony (founded 118 BCE) and senatorial province located in modern southern France, along the Mediterranean. This province had stronger cultural and political ties to Italy than the rest of Gaul.

Location

Sublocation

Baths of La Planchette

Garden

Baths of La Planchette

Keywords

Garden Description

To the northeast there are the baths of la Planchette, today backfilled. This bath complex of modest dimensions may have been attached to the northeast angle of the court of the house. It is surrounded on the exterior by a large gutter for rainwater. To the northeast of the bath building a rectangular pool has been found of about 3.5 x 2 m and having a semicircular apse with a diameter of 2 m. It is without doubt an ornamental pool belonging to the exterior garden associated with the baths. The nature of the ground surface around it is unknown. At the time of its discovery, the pool still had a water supply pipe of lead.

Plans

Plan of Baths of La Planchette_1
Fig.1 Plan of Baths of La Planchette_1
Plan of Baths of La Planchette_2
Fig.2 Plan of Baths of La Planchette_2

Bibliography

  1. La Maison Urbaine D'époque Romaine: Atlas Des Maisons De Gaule Narbonnaise. Vaucluse: Service d'archéologie du Conseil général de Vaucluse, 1996, P. 82-83. (worldcat)

  2. Chr. Fraisse, J. Dupraz, L'Ardèche, CAG 07, Gap, 2001, P. 155-156.

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