The eastern end of the excavation appears to have been truncated at some point in the past as there is a stratigraphic jump between 18th century garden soils and deposits which are producing exclusively Roman material. The centre of the trench is occupied by a substantial sandstone wall foundation that is on a unique alignment which does not respect either the walls of the amphitheatre or the general arrangement of St. John’s church. The date and function of this wall will be established by further excavation next year.
A small stone founded building was found to occupy the western half the excavation area. The walls of this building suggested that it had been divided in to three living areas/rooms one of which contained the base to a small fireplace/hearth. The largest room lay directly above a stone built cellar which was accessed via a stone and brick flight of stairs. Three of the four cellar walls had been built with an alcove presumably to house a lantern or an oil lamp to provide light while people were working in the cellar. The building must have fronted on to Little St. John Street though no evidence for a threshold was found. To the rear of the building there were a series of lazy-beds thought to have functioned as a vegetable patch for the occupants.
To the east of the building there were several shallow pits one of which appeared to contain a fragment from the base of a lead lined coffin – along with several fragments of human bone recovered from the area the possibility that there are human burials on the site still remains.