Roman buildings 21-31 Long Wyre Street (CAT Building 192).

A thick layer of clay was deposited on the old floors of CAT Building 191 (MCC2722; Period 5 – late 2nd century). This clay, containing chopped-up pieces of painted wall plaster, was certainly derived from the demolition of Building 191. On top of the dumped clay were several heavily truncated wall and floor fragments, which constitute Building 192. Though its walls were fragmentary, five rooms could be defined (there were certainly more originally). In Room 1, there were two mortar floor patches. They had no surviving surfaces, and had probably been robbed. To their west a trench marks the line of a robbed-out wall separating Rooms 1 and 2. In Room 2, there was a dump layer with trample on its upper surface. South of that was a clay dump layer. East of the medieval robber trench, the top layer was a greenish layer with two shallow cuts in its upper surface, probably demolition cuts. There was also a deposit of demolition material lying over the Period 5a floor. There were further floor patches from Rooms 3-5 and also an oven which may have been for domestic use.<1>