Newly retired, Peter Davenport was a professional archaeologist for 46 years, 25 of those being the senior archaeologist at Bath Archaeological Trust. He has been involved in all the excavations carried out in the Roman Baths and the great majority of excavations in the rest of Bath since 1980. He is a Trustee of the Roman Baths Foundation and lives in Batheaston.
For almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and archaeological finds were made by chance. Even fewer were reported. But from the 1860s, deliberate investigations were made and increasingly professional methods...
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