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Context Description:
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Room 5, the domestic chapel. Here- a few bricks in the east corner may represent a pavement but this had perished and the rest of the room seemed to be clay floored; in the west corner a few courses of brick stood for the "table". The SE wall, with thirteen courses of burnt brick, was preserved to a height of 2.90 m.; in the NW wall, on the line of the front of the altar that must have been there, was a niche which started at floor level and was carried up to the top of the surviving mud brickwork (c. 2.20 m.); in the SW wall was an incense-hearth, its base 0.35 m. above the floor and it had at one time been widened, as the NW side was a straight joint and the SE side had been cut in the burnt brick; above the burnt brickwork it narrowed to the normal chimney, which went up to the height of the standing wall, 2.20 m. Below the floor was a large brick tomb with arched doorway and also a burial in a large urn.2
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