M6

(fig. 82)

(Arthur Cooke, 1992)

Fig. 82: M6 plan and section.

A construction trench, 8 (fill 9), for a wall, 5, was cut into the dark red Cosa subsoil, 7. Perpendicular to it another cut, 10 (fill 11) probably represents the construction trench for a wall lying under the section. A compacted layer, 6, probably represents a surface associated with the building, although as it contains third century pottery it is clearly not the earliest surface, which may have been removed during the reconstruction of the 3rd c. A.D. This surface covered by a midden deposit, 2, dated to the 3rd c. or later by a coin of Elagabal (catalogue no. 79). From this layer a trench was cut to rob wall 5 (4, fill 3). The whole was covered by topsoil, 1.