Layer of brown sandy clay filling a cut

Excavated by mechanical digger. Inclusions consist of bricks, mortar, basalt flakes and very few ceramics. Fill of a cut created in between two basalt road surfaces (the via Praenestina and the Via Gabina) on either side, and the lower levels of preparation for the basalt road that used to sit in this area. The basalt road surfaces and preparation layers predate the cut.

Fill of a cut created in between two basalt roads on either side and the lower levels of preparation for the basalt.

Rectangular test trench.

Flat and compacted

The material was distributed throughout the layer in a uniform, homogeneous manner.

The layer was excavated as a limited test trench. Maximum depth was 1.60m

Latest dateable ware found in SU is a handle of a Dressel 30 amphora, produced starting in the 3rd c. CE

first impressions of ceramics in consultation with Giordano Iacomelli: latest datable material is a handle from Dressel 30 amphora produced starting from the 3rd century CE. Generally little datable material: large fragment of rim of Tripolitania I; 2 rims of Baetican garum amphora; 1 frag of ARS-A from 80/90 CE; very worn african cookingware A/D rim; generic bifid amphora handle. Otherwise fragments of commonware, african amphora wall sherds. Earliest material is a few frags of black gloss, creamware basin rim, 1 frag of TS.