Window

Henrik Boman & Monika Nilsson

Window in N wall
The window-frame is constructed in limestone and of partly cut stones. The window has a modern lintel and the E frame is obviously a modern reconstruction. The frame on the W side has either fallen off, or it has been cut down on the inside, as was the doorframe to the corridor.

In line with the lintel of the window, a horizontal cutting following the line of the wall is seen. If we assume that the wall is not too heavily reconstructed, this might be the support for the traverse wooden planks covering the beam of the second floor. The floor beams would then go in E-W direction. There are no traces of such an arrangement today. However, is seems more likely that the beams extended over the shortest span of the room, the N-S axis.

Window in W wall
The window opening towards room a is placed above a low opus incertum wall, today in a heavily dilapidated state of preservation. Three larger stones (1-3, see below) are used in the wall and there are some reused bricks/tiles, but otherwise mainly limestone. The core is exposed, with stone, dominated by limestone, and reused brick/tile and large amounts of mortar. Some larger limestone blocks are used, by the brick pilaster (1), in the centre (2) and by the N wall (3).

The sill is not preserved and the original height of the window is not possible to establish. One brick is protruding (d), inside the window frame, in line with the preserved plaster in room a; this might be an indication of an original height of at least 0.91m.

Small fragments of plaster are visible on some stones.