O5

(Nicholas Churchill, 1991)

A plaster floor, 4, which covered the whole trench, was covered with a tile fall from the roof of the building, 3, containing abundant white wall plaster. This was covered by a 20cm.-thick layer of clean compact earth deriving from collapsed pis» de terre, 2, sealed with a spread of wall plaster. The presence in the pis» layer of African cooking wares (Hayes forms 23 and 197) dates this collapse somewhere in the second half of the 1st c. A.D., or later. Over the destruction layers, a small midden deposit contained a coin of Gordian III (catalogue no. 80), while ARS form Hayes 50A, as well as unidentified fragments of ARS 'C' wares, found in topsoil confirms the use of this area for rubbish tipping in the 3rd c.