Casgliadau Arlein
Amgueddfa Cymru
Chwilio Uwch
Roman painted wall plaster
A fragment of white wall plaster with a purple-red 7mm stripe. A finger-nail scrape runs diagonally across, covered in its lower part by a thick, dirty impasto. This mark was made whilst the underlying plaster was still wet but after the colour had been applied. The technique used was, evidently, true fresco
Pwnc
Rhif yr Eitem
Gwybodaeth am y darganfyddiad
Enw'r Safle: Caerleon Amphitheatre Field (Sept 1955), Caerleon
Nodiadau: From the Civil Settlement - excavations conducted in field to the south of the amphitheatre. BUILDING 9 - room 10