During excavation of a pipe trench in Castle Park in 1983 (ECC375) a tessellated pavement was recorded. The pavement was situated on the east side of a north -south robbed out wall foundation (MCC1292). To the west of this foundation was another pavement (MCC1294) and to the north and south were further remains (see MCC1290, MCC1291 and MCC1295).<1>
The pavement may have been previously exposed in 1928/9 when Rex Hull undertook minor excavations against the fence on the west side of Hollytrees meadow (see ECC797), 'later trenching exposed remains of several walls and plain red tessellated floors all in a very fragmentary condition. The walls generally consisted of the foundation layer of mortar only, but here and there some blocks of septaria remained in position....The west wall of the room had been robbed'.<2> All of these remains probably represented three or more rooms of a building.