Bea
Thanks for your most impressive editorial references.
Bruce
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>From: Bea Hopkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: ancient Jewish bath
>Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:03:21 -0800
>
>Bruce,
> Re your request for further details, the following sources might be
>of interest:
>
>Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient Jewish
>mikvah in the heart of what was once London's Jewish quarter:
>
>http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001371420,00.html
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4284575,00.html
>http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/10/25/nbath25.
>xml&sSheet=/news/2001/10/25/ixhomef.html
>
>Bea
>
>
>On 10/28/01 6:35 AM Spas Research Fellowship writes:
>
> >Some time ago we learnt that Jacobís Well at Bristol included a medieval
> >Mitvah or Jewish Bath, the only one known in the UK at the time. Recently
> >the Daily Telegraph (25 Oct) ran an editorial on another one discovered
>in
> >the old Jewish quarter of the City of London. . It was built before the
> >expulsion of the Jews in 1290 and was found in the cellar of a house in
>Milk
> >Street. It is made of finely cut Greensand stone, is semi-circular and
>about
> >four feet wide and four feet deep. There are steps leading down into the
> >bath.
> >
> >For more details have a look at the news and views page on the SRF web
>site
> >at www.thespas.co.uk I will post a more detailed editorial later today.
> >
> >If you have any news let me have details and I can post it on the SRF
>site
> >also.
> >
> >
> >
> >Bruce
> >
> >
> >
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> > From Dr Bruce E Osborne of the Spas Research Fellowship
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