The Silchester Project: Roman Town Insula IX The Development of an Urban Property c. AD 40-50 - c. AD 250
Amanda Clarke, Michael Fulford, Michael Rains, 2007. https://doi.org/10.5284/1000259. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000259
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Query - Results
| Object Number: | 50043 |
| Title: | Early Roman Timber Building 1, Room 1 |
| Notes: | A series of gravel spreads were laid down, as levelling and a base for subsequent floors (5980,5990,5973,5975,5930,5918,5359). Linear beam slots (5393,5304,5375,5357,5356,5346,5396,5371,5323) originally containing wooden beams were cut into these gravels, forming a building measuring c.10m by 7m. Overlying the gravels, floor surfaces of clay (5909,5826,5823,5825,5824,5837,5926,6014,6024,5921,5956,5996) and opus signinum (5831) were lain. These only survived as patches. Charcoal-rich soils (6038,5919) also accumulated internally. There were three internal features of note; firstly a substantial tile-built hearth (1433) exhibiting three phases of use each associated with a re-laying/re-patching of the floor, secondly a shallow oblong pit (6032) measuring 0.98m by 0.45m with a depth of 0.15m, dug against the north-east wall and containing a near-complete sheep skeleton in amongst the clay infill, and finally a rectangular feature defined on three sides by a beam slot (5997) measuring c.2m by 1m, and containing a hard red-brown sandy clay (5921). |
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