Roman Baths - Book lists

Here we have included a list of books about the history and the excavation of the Roman Baths in the City of Bath, England.  We have also listed a few books on Roman bathing and religion which may help to place the Bath site into the context of Roman Britain as a whole.

 

Roman Baths and Temple

 

Official guidebook

  • The Roman Baths: A View over 2000 Years, Bath Archaeological Trust

 

Excavation reports - full detailed accounts

  • Cunliffe, B., 1969, Roman Bath, Society of Antiquaries Research Report No. XXIV
  • Cunliffe, B. and Davenport, P., 1985, The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath Volume I : the Site, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph No 7
  • Cunliffe, B. (ed.), 1988, The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath Volume II : the Finds from the Sacred Spring, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph No 16

 

More popular accounts

  • Cunliffe, B., 2000, Roman Bath Discovered, Tempus Publishing
  • Cunliffe, B., 1996, Roman Bath, Batsford/English Heritage
  • Cunliffe, B., 1986, The City of Bath, Alan Sutton (all periods from prehistoric to present)

 

 Inscriptions

  • All the known inscriptions from Bath are fully published in Cunliffe 1969 or Cunliffe (ed) 1988

 

General inscriptions

  • Collingwood, R.G. & Wright, R.P., 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, Clarendon Press
  • Keppie, L., 1991, Understanding Roman Inscriptions, Batsford

 

Curses from Bath

  • Tomlin, R.S.O., 1988, 'The curse tablets' in Cunliffe (ed.) 1988
  • Tomlin, R.S.O., 1992, 'Voices from the Sacred Spring' in Bath History Volume IV, Millstream Books

 

The Spring

  • Kellaway, G.A. (ed.), 1991, Hot Springs of Bath, Bath City Council 

 

Other archaeological sites in Bath

  • Cunliffe 1969 (above) for a good round up to knowledge to 1969
  • Cunliffe, B., 1979, Excavations in Bath 1950-1975, Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Glos, and Somerset
  • Davenport, P. (ed.), 1991, Archaeology in Bath 1976-1985, Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph No. 28.
  • Davenport, P. (ed.), 1999, Archaeology in Bath 1984-1989, BAR British Series 284

 

Roman bathing

 

Academic accounts

  • Fagan G., 1999, Bathing in Public in the Roman World, University of Michigan Press
  • Nielsen, I., 1990, Thermae et Balnea, Aarhus University Press
  • Yegul, F., 1992, Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity, M.I.T. Press

 

Small, popular account

  • Rook, T., 1992, Roman Baths in Britain, Shire Archaeology

 

Celtic and Roman religion

  • Green, M.J., 1983, The Gods of Roman Britain, Shire Archaeology
  • Green, M.J., 1986, The Gods of the Celts, Alan Sutton
  • Henig, M., 1984, Religion in Roman Britain, Batsford
  • Woodward, A., 1992, Shrines and Sacrifice, Batsford/English Heritage 

 

Other relevant publications

  • Clews, S. (ed.), 2000, Roman Baths and Pump Room Conservation Statement, Bath and North East Somerset Council
  • Clews, S. 2001, ‘Engaging with the individual – A strategy for development and survival at the Roman Baths Museum, Bath’ in Archäologische Museen und Stätten der Römischen Antike, Cologne
  • Dark, K., 1993, 'Town or Temenos? A re-interpretation of the walled area of Aquae Sulis', Britannia, Vol. XXIV
  • Henig, M., 2000, ‘From Classical Greece to Roman Britain: Some Hellenic themes in provincial art and Glyptics’ in Tsetskhladze G., Prag A. & Snodgrass A. (eds) Periplous, Thames & Hudson
  • Hind, D., 1997, ‘Whose head on the Bath temple pediment?’ Britannia,  Vol. XXVII
  • Nodder, C., 1997, Stanton Drew Parish Resource Pack, Bath and North East Somerset Council
  • Nodder, C., 1997, Wellow and Shoscombe Parish Resource Pack, Bath and North East Somerset Council