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Hadrian's Wall - Drain in the North Gate, Chesters

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun/53345102/


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Hot room, Roman bath at Chesters, Hadrian's Wall, England

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun/53345764/in/set-1156301/


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Latrine of the bath house at Chesters, Hadrian's Wall, England

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alun/53345842/in/set-1156301/


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Roman toilet, Germany

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbrooks/55472471/


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Part of the communal toilets at Leptis Magna. The mason making the seats from a slab of marble seems to have marked out a seat hole in the wrong place! The toilets had running water drainage under the seats. Scanned from slide taken about August 1958. Libya

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogcodes/618920251/


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Toilet in Domus of Fortuna Annonaria, Ostia Antica, Italy - seat is modern replica

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gauiscaecilius/61938131/


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Pompeii - Men's latrine at the end of the Forum Granary. Stone protrusions from the walls were used as supports for a wooden bench that covered the ditch below. Waste material was washed down the ditch into the sewer (arched opening in the far right corner).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daryoush/66538192/


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Roman pipes at Caesarea National Park, Israel.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobblestones/8887081/


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Roman Aqueducts and Caesarea National Park.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobblestones/8887107/in/photostream/


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