Illustration: Hypocaust for Heating Water, Thermæ of Caracalla From an old woodcut] A is a portico fronting the street made by Caracalla when he constructed his thermæ.
Indeed, the hypocaust had many of the features and many of the merits of our modern furnace.
However, after the wood in the hypocaust was once well charred, the smoke was not so troublesome.
There is a fragment of one lying in the hypocaust at Chesters, the edge of which is worn down by the sharpening of knives upon it.
The remains of a hypocaust were discovered at the same time.
Illustration: Altar to Fortune, Chesterholm] The other hypocaust was partially explored by Warburton in 1717, but more fully by the rev.
Footnote 87: The section of the hypocaustwall on Plate III is taken from this example, and shews the hanging floor.
Next to food, warmth would be their most urgent demand, and a more effectual mode of maintaining a uniform temperature in their dwellings could not be devised than that which the hypocaust supplied.
The remains of a hypocaust may be seen near to the place where the pretorium has probably stood.
Here also Mr. Hedley discovered the three noble altars [Illustration: Hypocaust Pillar] which are still preserved at Chesterholm.
It has been already observed, that some of the pillars of the hypocaust have been portions of a prior building;--the ruin and inscription thus corroborate each other.
Probably the most perfect hypocaust in England is that which is to be seen in the grounds attached to the Water Tower at Chester.
In another hypocaust were the remains of three persons who had crept in there for concealment; near one lay a little heap of Roman coins, 132 in number, and a decomposed box or coffer.
Pliny describes a bedchamber in his villa warmed by the hypocaust and the tiles, with narrow openings.
A large hypocaust is described with 120 columns of bricks, and is thought to have belonged to the public baths.
The pillars which you see in the illustration are those of another hypocaustfound many years ago in Bridge Street.
In Bridge Street is a hypocaust remaining just where the Romans left it.
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