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Archaeological Notes COWBRIDGE (SS 99 74) A year's programme of excavations in Cowbridge, undertaken by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust in advance of development and completed in April 1982, has shed new light on several aspects of the town's history. Several sites yielded evidence for the nature of occupation during the Romano-British period. At the Arthur John Car Park Site a thirteen-roomed bath-house was discovered, consisting of a cold- water suite, a hot-steam bath suite, and a hot dry suite, together with associated furnace rooms, fuel stores, and service rooms. The build- ing was aligned at 45° to the High Street, which follows the Roman road alignment for at least part of its length. Preliminary inspection of the dating evidence provided by the finds suggests that the initial construction took place c. A.D. 100. Substantial alterations were undertaken shortly after c. A.D. 120 with the addition of some side rooms and the provision of a larger and more efficient main furnace- room. During the final period of use, apparently in response to a rising water-table, a series of gullies and soakaway pits was dug, probably in order to drain water away from the main furnace-room. Towards the end of the second century the drainage problem seems to have become so acute that the building was abandoned and care- fully stripped of nearly all the re-usable building materials. As a result of this dismantling, virtually all the flooring and most of the hypocausts in the heated rooms had been removed. Amongst the destruction debris were several fragments of roofing tile stamped 'LEG I AUG' and various types of window glass. During the third and fourth centuries the area was given over to agriculture, evidenced by the construction of two T-shaped corn-drying ovens and two drainage gullies. The stamped tile, the period of occupation, the design of the building, its alignment in relation to the High Street and the discovery amongst the destruction debris of the iron bolt from a