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Scale 1:50 BATH, room 3, section facing east, 1.35 m east of w. bay.
Drawing: architectural section with labels:
Room 3 west bay 3 terracotta brick empty 2 debris black fill - part of use 3 floor level Room 3 center brick floor hypocaust]
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DIARY 1280 cont. from p. 1276 Today 9 May began removing 1273-2 on east side of room (room 7) no essential change from strat 1 for which see also section p. 1257-1 - loose brown soil - heavy debris. Began digging also 1257-2 (west end of room 3) - no essential change from 1 - all debris. At bottom of of strat 1 up against west wall a good deal of lime plaster was found. Also an inscription (F [margin left: Room 3] In room 3 Mehmet continued to clear, under Mr. Hill's direction, (in my absence) upper stratum of hypocaust throughout room save S part of S. bay. Samples of ribbed pottery found everywhere. This strat. was all debris consisting mainly of bricks & tiles, some rough stones - lime plaster - a few worked stones comparatively small have been stored on north wall. See F 88-92 incl. (also some others as yet not recorded). The soil in upper hypocaust fill was consistently light buff brown
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain