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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 2005 |
| Feature Type: fire installation |
| Feature Subtype: hearth |
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| Location: south centre of building 56 |
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| Grid X: 937.3 Grid Y: 959.15 |
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Hearth built onto NE corner of Platform F 2062, upper surface burnt/scorched and cracked. A partial grindstone still remains in situ 12805
The hearth was badly cracked along its upper surface through heat and slumping. The scortched burnt area on the upper surface is confined to the central circular area 0.75m in diameter. The sides however were fairly pristine apart from the western edge that had been damaged by an animal burrow and the construction of a later foundation the weight of which might have caused some of the slumping the mortar7plaster coating is similar to that used along the working surfaces sen in oven F. 2090 and is coarser than that covering the surrounding floors and platforms.
From Archive Report 2006:
Hearths F.2061 & F.2075
Placed on top of hearth surface (12820) and no doubt deliberately left there was grindstone fragment (12805), this again a repeated pattern that we shall return too. The removal of the upper hearth plaster revealed levelling demolition deposits (12833/12837) these in turn sealing the lower hearth sequence F.2075. Reflecting the oven sequence the lower hearth had two phases as represented by plaster surface and make-up, respectively (12844) and (12845) that sealed burnt hearth floor and plaster walls (12850) and (12851). Beneath this a square strip of mud brick provided the ‘rough-out’ moulding for the initial construction phase. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| above: (Click to view the record) 2075 |
| contemporary with: (Click to view the record) 2060 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 2 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 8 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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