West Wall
Description
Thomas Staub
W wall: w: 3.15 m, max. preserved h: 2.50 m (in the southern part above a line of tiles in 1.90 m h, as a modern reconstruction). Hydraulic plaster, or the wall heating system, up to 1.10-1.50 m h, covers the wall. The tegolae mammatae are again covered by plaster, without any remains of the decorations. Above the plaster, the wall is made of a mixed opus incertum with mainly Sarno stone, containing also lava and cruma (fist large to 0.20 x 0.10 m in size), set into a yellowish mortar. In the northern part, a 0.30 x 0.45 m large area is at least covered by modern concrete or is a modern reconstruction. In 1.65 m h, two holes are going through to the adjacent house of Tofelanus Valens (V 1, 28), one 0.50 m to the S of the corner, the other at the corner. Since there are beam holes for an upper storey in V 1, 28's side of the wall, these two holes are probably due to two missing stones.
