Floor

A. Karivieri & R. Forsell

The room had a lavapesta floor in its latest phase. The lavapesta covers the floor everywhere except for in front of the threshold to the room a, along a 1.52m long and 0.035-0.105 wide line, where the floor coating is neatly cut.

The lavapesta floor abuts to the wall-plaster in the southeastern corner and along the wall in the southwest. In the southwestern part the floor is sloping towards the west. This starts at a crack in the floor.
In the north door opening, which has been closed off by a thin wall, the remaining stones of the wall are placed on top of the lavapesta floor. In the door opening there are two pieces of threshold also covered by the later built wall. In the northeastern corner of the room, the floor was made against the latest layer of wall-plaster. It is also made against the opus testaceum repair in the south wall. Along the southwestern part of the room some remains of an earlier cocciopesto floor can be seen below the lavapesta floor.

State of preservation:
The floor surface is well preserved along the walls but worn in the middle. It also has many cracks.