North Wall
Description
A. Karivieri & R. Forsell
The wall consists mostly of rounded stones, lava, cruma, limestone, pieces of terracotta and rooftiles, some tuff bricks. Some of the limestone pieces are rectangular blocks, one 45 x 10 cm, another 10 x 7 cm, others from fist size to 30 x 20 cm, and some blocks have fallen down from the wall.
There is one beam hole in the upper part of the wall, at the height of 3.27 m, 1.25 m from the NE corner. The beam hole is rectangular and continues through the wall. Wall plaster is partly preserved in the W part of the wall, in the NW corner, up till 1.70 m, in the centre of the wall up to 2.26 m.
The dado consists of reddish plaster, 1.37 high. The preserved width of the main zone is 2.40 m, height 0.90 m from the edge of the dado. There is no visible decoration in colour, and the plaster has coarse structure, with small stones. In the dado the plaster includes small pieces of terracotta. In the NE corner, there are remains of the supporting structure of the latrine at the height of 0.25 cm, see separate description.
Width 3.90 m.
