Roman bath house unearthed in park

An exclusive private Roman bath house which would have been owned and used by society’s elite has been discovered under a public park.

Archaeologists made the “once-in-a-lifetime” discovery, which is made up of three buildings, underneath Priory Park in Chichester, West Sussex.

The historians discovered two Roman townhouses, one of which had its own private bath house, believed to have been owned by someone of “great wealth and importance”.