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 (MCC776), on the south side of an east-west street (MCC733) belonging to the new colonial street grid and adjacent to another building (MCC784).
Little of the structure could be excavated but the floor was 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. Internally the building contained one or two hearths and a gully which probably conducted waste water beneath the adjacent footway (MCC789) to the north and into a street drain. The building was destroyed during the Boudican revolt but the Boudican destruction debris was very thin and in some places absent.<1>