Excavation

Date 1996

Event ID 546322

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS 9168 7941 Two seasons of excavations in a back garden of Sandyloan Crescent uncovered four phases of Roman activity in the area of the fort annexe at Mumrills. Building slots were cut through an agricultural soil in the first phase. These were later replaced, on the same alignment, by timber buildings using sill beams fronting onto a well-metalled road. Inside two of the buildings ovens were located. Another building, to the N, had substantial post-holes, 0.8m deep. In the third phase the road and the S building were cut perpendicularly by a sleeper wall. This in turn was overlain by a large area of cobbling.