ROMAN

Roman material made up the bulk of the sample. Forms retrieved included: imbrex and tegula (roof tile), brick (used for a variety of building purposes) and box flue (used in the hypocaust heating system). There were examples of plain white plaster and daub from [2001]. Although there were a few examples of mortar along broken edges (mainly on bricks), which often indicates reuse, there was not enough to suggest that this sample had been robbed and reused in another building. The box flue fragments consisted mostly of plain faces, many of which indicated that the form had a square, knife cut vent. There were only 2 examples of keying for the box flue (from contexts [2001] and [2043]), and they were both combing, which is thought to be introduced in the early 2nd century.

Two tile stamps were found - one from [2020] matched with Betts's catalogue number 46, and is a sixth legion stamp, the other from [2024] is currently unidentified. There was a possible voussoir (used in forming arches) from [2047], though this may just be a badly formed brick. A single fragment of vaulting tube (used for forming roof vaults) was present in [2024].

There was a scatter of sandstone flags throughout the sample. None of the examples had a nail-hole, so cannot be identified as roof tile.

MEDIEVAL

Only one fragment of roof tile could be identified as Peg tile, this came from [2007].

CONTEXT FORM SPOT DATE

U/S Box Flue, Tegula, Imbrex Roman

1001 Tegula, Brick, Box Flue Roman

1004 Tegula, Imbrex, Brick Roman

1006 Imbrex, Brick, Tegula Roman

1008 Misc Roman

1010 Tegula, Brick, Imbrex Roman

1011 Tegula, Imbrex, Brick Roman

1012 Brick, Misc Roman

1013 Tegula, Brick, Imbrex Roman

1014 Brick Roman

2001 Misc., Imbrex, Brick, Daub, Plain Plaster,

Sandstone, Tegula, Box Flue (combed) ?2nd+

2003 Box Flue, Misc., Tegula, Imbrex,Sandstone,

Brick Roman

2005 Misc., Tegula, Imbrex Roman

2007 ?Medieval Misc., Peg 13th+

2010 Tegula Roman

2012 Brick Roman

2014 Tegula, Imbrex Roman

2015 Tegula, Brick Roman

2020 6th Legion tile stamp, Tegula, Imbrex,

Brick, Box Flue, Misc. 2nd+

2021 Tegula, Misc., Imbrex Roman

2022 Imbrex, ?Tegula Roman

2023 Imbrex, Unidentified Object Roman

2024 Imbrex, ?Vaulting Tube, Tegula, Brick

Sandstone, Tile Stamp ?2nd+

2025 Imbrex, Brick, Tegula Roman

2026 Imbrex, Tegula Roman

2028 Tegula, Imbrex Roman

2032 Imbrex Roman

2041 Imbrex, Brick Roman

2042 Sandstone, Imbrex, Tegula, Brick Roman

2043 Tegula, Imbrex, Box Flue (Combed) ?2nd+

2044 Tegula, Misc. Roman

2047 Tegula, Imbrex, Brick, ??Voussoir,

Sandstone Roman