All these small walls seem to belong to the same project and operate as a group. They are clearly part of the post abandonment phase of the area. The fills surrounding the walls contained very little construction materials, so our current hypothesis is that the spaces were cleared of these materials. Several of the walls contain architectural spolia of various periods, such as tufo doric capitals, corinthian marble capitals, marble cornices with egg and dart. Especially in Area G, it seems as if the fills were deposited as the walls are built. The regularity and level nature of one side of the walls indicated construction of a contraterra nature. There are so clear doorways or passages in any of the walls. All the walls in area G sit on the same uniform surface, a compact layer of light brown soil and mortar. The uniformity suggests that this was surface visible or constructed by the creators of the walls. The fills are unusual the soil was relatively loose and sterile, ceramic inclusions are miscellaneous, waterworn, but include some medieval pottery. The current theory for the purpose of the walls is agricultural, for some kind of leveling for small-scale agriculture or viticulture. Photos from the Soprintendenza indicate that the walls cover the fill of the drainage channel and the Via Gabina. Our excavations also demonstrated that the walls cover the via Gabina. This indicates that the road was already out of use and therefore suggests an early medieval date, possibly connected to the the passage of this territory into the hands of the church.
Deposit of brown Silt in Room 5 between 6028 and 6030 and Linear feature of stones running NS in Room 5 west of 6029
Southern portion of 2016 Area G