During excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5 (ECC3375), 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 (MCC776), on the south side of an east-west street (MCC733) belonging to the new colonial street grid and to the east of another building other buildings (MCC784). It had a footway running along its north side (see MCC788).
Little of the structure could be excavated but the floors were of daub and the walls were supported on single timber ground-plates set in slots. The walls were either of the 'stud-and-wattle' or the 'daub-and-block' type. The remains of the building could be interpreted as at east four different rooms, their positions indicated by an east-west slot and a group of north-south slots. The building contained few small pits and only one good example of a hearth. Only one room contained many stake holes. On the buildings east side were a floor and a pit which could have belonged to another building.
The building was destroyed during the Boudican revolt but the Boudican destruction debris was very thin and in some places absent.<1>