Build your own Roman roof and heating system - model tiles can be used to construct a typical Roman tiled roof and a hypocaust and are supported by original examples of Roman building materials and detailed teaching notes.
Contents of Godalming Museum’s
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EQUIPMENT Cotton gloves ARTEFACTS A tessera (from a mosaic pavement at Binscombe) A roman nail (from Rockbourne villa in the New Forest) Fragment of painted wall plaster (also from Rockbourne) Fragment of a Roman Imbrex (curved roof tile) Fragment of a Roman tegula (flat roof tile) Fragment of a Roman Brick ROOF MODEL WOODEN PARTS Roof Timbers Side walls MODEL BRICKS AND TILES Bricks for model hypocaust Tegulae (flat tiles) for the model roof Imbrices (curved tiles) for the model roof BOOKS Fishbourne: A Guide To The Site Bignor Roman Villa Guide Book PHOTOGRAPHS 4 Photographs “Building the model hypocaust” 6 Photographs “Building the model roof” 2 Photographs “Roofing with imbrices only” Laminated photograph of “Flue”
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Detailed teaching notes are provided. Click here for a PDF.
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