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Context Description:
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Room 3 was a lavatory with paved floor in which, close to the stair-blocking at the SE end, was a rectangular slit forming the intake of the drain. Its original threshold was raised 0.25 m. above the pavement, but at 1.25 m. above the pavement, resting on mixed rubbish, there was more burnt brickwork rising to 1.90 m. which might be a blocking of the door but might also be a threshold belonging to a much later phase in the history of the house. Above the lavatory ran the stairs. There were two steps in the wall thickness at the door, the lowest 0.30 m. high, then a corner landing and in the turn to the right one step of mud brick and three of burnt brick (the second fronted with bricks set on edge) giving a height of 1.20 m. above the pavement; there had been two more steps over the solid filling and thereafter the flight had been continued in wood. In the mud-brick wall facing the door, 0.90 m. above the landing, there was a niche 0.50 m. high X 0.50 m. wide X 0.25 m. deep; it might have been for a lamp. In this doorway also there was at 1.30 m. above the pavement more burnt brickwork (four courses) rising to 2.05 m. which seemed to be a late threshold and not a blocking of the door.2
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