During excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5 (ECC337), the remains of a timber-framed building belonging to the period between the foundation of the colonia and the Boudican revolt were examined.

Interpretation of the remains was difficult and was compounded by the fact that some of the ground-plates had been removed during clear-up operations after the Boudican destruction. The building was situated over the site of an earlier military building (MCC775), on the north side of an east-west street (MON520) belonging to the new colonial street grid and adjacent to another building of the same date (MCC780).

Little of the structure could be excavated but the floor was of daub and the wall was supported on a single timber ground-plate the charred remains of which survived in situ. The wall between the building and the adjacent structure to the west (MCC780) was probably of the 'daub-block type'. Although interpreted as a party wall, it could equally well have been part of an internal partition in the same building so that MCC780 and MCC782 may in fact have been the same building. The footway to the south of the building (MCC789) appears to have been built at the same time and may have been an integral part of it. The building was destroyed during the Boudican revolt but the Boudican destruction debris was very thin and in some places absent.<1>