During excavations at Culver Street between 1981-2 and 1984-5 (ECC337), a Roman timber-framed building (CAT Building 101) was discovered situated on the south side of an east-west street (MCC733) and to the east of the former via principalis (MCC760). Interpretation of the building remains was complicated by the fact that the relevant remains had been largely removed by machine stripping.

The position of the frontage wall of this, and three other buildings (see MCC863, MCC866, MCC868) was indicated by a series of pits for posts. There was no clear evidence to suggest the footway (MCC788) between the frontage wall and the street had been an integral part of the buildings.

The west side of the building was indicated by two north-south slots. A slot and two posts probably represented the remains of the east wall of a passage way up the west side of the northern part of the building. On the south side of the building were the remains of what appears to have been a sunken floor which may have had walls around each of its sides. Adjacent and to the north of this were short lengths of what was probably a drainage gully. The building was separated from the building to the east (MCC866) by a party wall indicated by a north-south slot.<1>