That is also tough to validate within excavation reports purely because if the building not any longer exists then there could be evidence of a floor plan Just What it is more possible to assume is that the presence of loom weights in some aspects of the household, including the courtyard, would suggest that these areas were specialized in females (Allison, 1999: 71). In Roman society women could have done the weaving into the forecourts of your home as this is the ‘well-lit an element of the household’ (Allison: 1999: 70). In comparing the houses from the two societies being.