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Context Description:
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Room 1, was unpaved-at least there was no pavement
left - and had been re-floored at least once, as all the thresholds had been raised by three or four courses of burnt brick above the existing floor level. The NE wall had only two courses of burnt brick, lying below floor level, which is evidence that the existing floor was not the earliest; the other walls had nine or ten courses of burnt brick above the floor, with mud brick above. That the house in its present form was late is further shown by the fact that its floor was 1.35 m. higher than that of the chapel (No. 2), and the burnt brickwork of its NE wall which showed above the floor of the neighbouring Room 12 of the Boundary Street house was here 0.60 m. below the floor level. A straight joint in the middle of the SW wall implied a change of plan at some time, and in the NE wall an old doorway had been walled up apparently when the house was first built. Against the SE wall was an oblong brick enclosure or base partly blocking the door to Room 8.2
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