Villamagna - Record View Page: VM

- Interpretation Construction layer for dolium, base for pavement preparation. Used to build up/clad around the dolium.
- Interpreted by
  - Janine Young
- Interpreted on 19-7-2007

Criteria of Distinctioncolor, compaction
Excavation Technique
Dimensionsseen all over trench
Compositionsandy clay
Colourbrown-yellow
Compactionvery hard
State of Conservationgood
Formationman-made
Geological Components
Organic Components
Artificial Componentsblue mortar lumps, smaller rubble speckles
Descriptionlayer of compact yellow clay with infrequent largish fragments of blue mortar and rubble speckles
Observationsfairly consistent makeup around whole of trench, most apparent around edges of 1041 and around dolium cuts
Chronological Elements
Palaeobotanical elements
Period
Phase
Stratigraphic Reliability

	Total fragments
Roman- Amphorae	1