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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sacred Spring, Bath - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in England in Somerset

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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Sacred Spring, Bath Alternative Name: Aquae Sulis, Roman Baths, Hot Spring
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.9 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Somerset Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Bath
Map Ref: ST7505364726
Latitude: 51.381030N  Longitude: 2.359846W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Great Bath. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sacred Spring in Somerset. The hot spring at Bath was a sacred place long before the Romans came. it was channeled by the Romans and later made into a fashionable spa, yet still the hot water bubbles to the surface.
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Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by SolarMegalith : Mostly reconstructed The Great Bath, the main part of the Roman complex concentrated around the hot springs (photo taken on December 2006). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Great Bath looking the other way. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The famous gilt bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva, Spellbinding. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : My favorite stone on show, The Western tradition triple goddess[s] looking very alien to my eyes. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by SolarMegalith : The first sanctuary here was build by Celts, while the Roman compelx was build since 1st century AD till 3rd century AD (photo taken on December 2006).

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Great Bath.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Sacred spring.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by SolarMegalith : Preserved mosaics in the museum (photo taken on December 2006).

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by mishkin : The famous celtic/gorgons head to be found at the baths

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Thorgrim : Statue of the legendary British King Bladud. Geoffrey of Monmouth relates the legend that Bladud was cured of leprosy here and founded the hot bath in 863 BC

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Spring overflow which carries surplus water from the hot spring to the original Roman drain, and on to the River Avon four hundred metres away.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Great Bath at Aquae Sulis from above.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by mishkin : Parts of the pediment framing the celtic head on its shield.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Thorgrim : The legendary beginning of Bath

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Thorgrim : The hot springs still rise at Bath. Sacred to Sulis long before the coming of the Romans. Tourists stand in awe of the Roman outflow, but that is merely a drain. Here where the hot water bubbles up from the earth is the real mystery.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : An image of the goddess Luna, She looks very regal, I wonder where we still see that image nowadays in Britain.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : A metal face mask from the waters.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : A stone head from the Temple.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : A pretty stone from the Temple.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by Bladup : The Gorgon's Head.

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by KiwiBetsy : Healthy pigeons - a testimony to the sacred water. ST750640

Sacred Spring, Bath
Sacred Spring, Bath submitted by KiwiBetsy : Overflow from the Sacred Spring off on it's journey through the Roman drains. ST750640 (2 comments)

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Re: Sacred Spring, Bath by Rhodania on Wednesday, 22 July 2020
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The coordinates are off by half a mile and indicate the NW corner of Alexandra Park, south of the Avon.
According to gridreferencefinder.com, the correct location is as follows:
ST 75053 64726
ST750647
51.381032N 2.359851W

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Putting the clock back 10,000 years at Bath spring by Andy B on Friday, 08 February 2008
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Chock-full of famous Roman Baths, Celtic kings, Georgian crescents and Jane Austen, the history of Bath already ran to quite a weighty tome.

But archaeologists admitted yesterday that two new chapters would have to be written after amazing discoveries made while a new sewer was being dug.

At the very depths of the site of a new GBP350 million shopping centre in the heart of the ancient city, archaeologists found new evidence that extends the history of the city thousands of years further back.

The archaeologists found the first evidence of human activity near the banks of the River Avon dating back to 8,000BC, that's before any kind of recorded history and even before the idea of farming had reached the British Isles.

The first Bathonians were hunter- gatherers, following herds of deer and other game along the river valley, attracted by the hot springs and the plentiful fish in the River Avon.

And on the spot where people would later settle and use the hot springs, they made tools, fished and left scraps of archaeological evidence, according to Bath and North East Somerset archaeologist Richard Sermon.

"Previously, archaeological interest has been on the Roman and medieval times in Bath, but this has given us a glimpse right back into the very first people who would have come to what is now Bath," he said.

"The hunter-gatherers would have been attracted by the game here and the fishing, and possibly by the micro-environment caused by the hot springs. It takes the history of Bath right back to 8,000BC.

"It's not perhaps rewriting the history of Bath, but giving us a new chapter. It tells us that people came here that long ago. Flint tools and other items were found in the alluvial deposits." The archaeologists also found evidence that Alfred the Great viewed Bath as part of his chain of fortified towns right across southern England, as he built a line of defences against the Danes.

Back in 880, two years after Alfred returned from the Somerset marshes to defeat the Danes and push them out of Wessex, he ordered a chain of towns to have their defences beefed up. So such towns as Malmesbury and Cricklade in Wiltshire, and Barnstaple in Devon became effectively huge castles with defensive ramparts to repel any Viking invasion.

And while Bath's Dark Age history has remained elusive, Mr Sermon said the exciting evidence showed that Bath was part of his plans too.

"Here we have found evidence of a very early ditch which would have been defensive and crossed where Southgate Street later ran.

"It was actually found while work went on to construct a combine sewer outfall for the new shopping centre. We dated it and discovered it was late Saxon, which would match the defensive work in other places at the time of King Alfred," he added.

The evidence for new chapters in Bath's history has captured the imagination of 21st-century Bathonians. A lecture held last month in which the archaeologists revealed their findings, was so popular people had to be turned away.

So heritage bosses are holding a repeat on Monday, February 11, at 7pm in the Guildhall.

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