West Wall

A. Karivieri & R. Forsell

The wall is located between rooms f and g and has a north-south orientation.

The wall is made in op. incertum. It consists of mostly lava stones, some limestone, cruma and one brick. The upper part is reconstructed in limestone, cruma, yellow and grey tuff and cement. There is a hole in the wall 0.38m from the SW corner at the height of 1.14m. It measures 9x11-16 cm. The hole is at approximately the same height as the lowermost large beam-hole in the south wall. The hole can probably be connected with the holes placed at the same level in the south wall, indicating that there used to be shelves in the room. An iron clamp is placed 0.70 from the southwest corner at the height of 1.04. There is one vertical groove in the plaster 0.02 from the southwest corner and two parallel grooves running from the southwest corner.

Wall decoration: There are remains of white coloured wall-plaster in the lower part of the wall. It is highest 1.38m in the SW corner, lowest 0.50m in the middle of the wall.



State of preservation:
The upper part of the wall is missing, the uppermost part is reconstructed. The original wall is preserved up to 1.93m in the SW corner, 0.30m in the northwest corner.