| Apodyterium |
Changing room in the Baths |
| Apse |
A semi-circular or polygonal end to part of a building |
| Basilica |
Part of the Forum and Basilica complex. The Basilica was the administrative centre. The Forum court in front of it was surrounded on the other three sides by a range of rooms |
| Circa |
About the time of/around |
| Caldarium |
Hot room with hot bath in the Baths |
| Calleva Atrebatum |
The Roman name for the town, translated as ‘The Woodland town of the Atrebates’ |
| Capital |
The decorated head of a column |
| Channelled hypocaust |
A method of heating a room. The floor had a solid foundation into which deep channels were cut. Hot air from a furnace circulated in these and warmed the floor above |
| Doric |
A style of classical architecture |
| Euterpe |
The Muse of music and lyric poetry |
| Forum and Basilica |
The Basilica was the administrative centre. The Forum court in front of it was surrounded on the other three sides by a range of rooms |
| Flagon |
A vessel used for holding liquids, with a narrow neck and usually a globular body, a footring and one or more handles |
| Flue |
Channel for conducting heat |
| Frigidarium |
Cold room with cold bath in the Baths |
| Graffito/Graffiti |
Mark or marks on a container or object. These include names, numerals and even phrases. Some were scratched onto the surface after the manufacturing process was completed, but some marks on clay tiles or pottery were inscribed before the object was fired |
| Hypocaust |
Underfloor heating system fed from a furnace |
| Insula |
The grid of streets divided the town into areas. These were given insula numbers for the purposes of excavation and recording. Roman numerals were used and this is the convention by which the areas are still identified |
| In Situ |
In the original place of discovery |
| Lararium |
Household shrine |
| Latrine |
Toilet |
| Ogham |
Script of late or post-Roman date which is based on vertical and horizontal lines |
| Pilae Hypocaust |
A heating system in which the floor is supported on columns of pilae (stacks of tiles). Hot air circulated around these and warmed the floor above |
| Portico |
Colonnade serving as a porch to a building |
| Quernstone |
A stone used to grind wheat grains into flour |
| Sudatorioum |
Hot dry room in the Baths |
| Tepidarium |
Warm room in the Baths |
| Vitam Tibi |
Motto on a pottery beaker of late second to early third century date. Translated as ‘long life to you’, a drinking toast similar to ‘cheers’ |
