Reconstruction drawing showing the interior of the latrine block at Housesteads Roman Fort. The wooden benches were built over pits with channelled drainage water, and the small water channel may have been for rinsing personal washing sponges.

Date:
circa 1985 - circa 1989
Location:
Housesteads Roman Fort, Latrine, Bardon Mill, Housesteads Crags, Northumberland
Reference:
IC048/045
Type:
Reconstruction Artwork
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Content

This is part of the Volume: IC048 Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site, Cumbria/ Northumberland/ Tyne and Wear; within the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Illustrator: Gardiner, Frank Joseph Henry

Keywords

Roman Privy House