Aquae Sulis a major Roman Baths complex associated with an adjoining temple. About 130 messages to Sulis scratched onto lead curse tablets ("defixiones") have been recovered from the Sacred Spring by archaeologists. Most of them were written in Latin, although one discovered was in Brythonic, and usually laid curses upon those whom the writer felt had done them wrong. This collection is the most important found in Britain. The Brythonic curse recovered on a metal pendant is the only sentence in the language that has been discovered. It reads: "Adixoui Deuina Deieda Andagin Uindiorix cuamenai" or maybe "Adixoui Deiana Deieda Andagin Uindiorix
Roman Baths (Bath) legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud. The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of "Aquae Sulis" ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60–70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a