Trench 1L (2.5 x 2.5 m) was laid out as a southern
extension of 1A and the baulk that originally divided 1A
from 1B. It was positioned in an attempt to recover the
remaining edge of the stone part of the theatre cavea.
The excavation was straightforward and consisted of five
deposit levels, and the removal of these was essentially
undertaken by dividing the trench into an eastern and a
western half. The four seats remaining in this trench
continued as expected. On the eastern side, the seating was
no longer in situ and the cavea dropped away to reveal a
neatly-cut feature in the bedrock.
All deposits were primarily mixed tumble, becoming
consistently deeper as one moved down the hill-slope.
Notable was a deposit filled with mixed plaster and mortar
from the surface of the seating found in the northernmost
third of 1L which had fallen into the cut hole at the edge
of the stone part of the cavea.
This bedrock on the eastern side was carefully cut, and at
the southern end dropped away almost vertically. It had been
formed in an almost box-like shape and it must have been
designed as an area for special guests, at a safe distance
from gladiatorial and animal combats.