№ 90
Before Restoration

Hypocaust Remains in the Future Little Shop

Another room, carried on the same wooden beams and a thick, whitewashed brick pier. On the left, a window; opposite, an arched opening into a smaller room with its own window; on the right, a long corridor stretching into the dark, with another arch further in. In the corner, right by the wall, the same low, stepped brick structures can be seen as in exhibit No. 89.

This room will become a small shop in the future — and here, at a completely different end of the building, the same hypocaust-type heating system remains turn up as in the future hotel reception. The fact that similar brick channels are found in several different rooms suggests that this warm-air floor-heating mechanism once served a considerable part of the ground floor, rather than being a feature of just one particular hall.

As in the other exhibits in this series, the animation only turns the camera barely perceptibly — the frame is already real and in colour.

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