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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2013 |
| Feature Type: fire installation |
| Feature Subtype: hearth |
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| Location: Along the Eastern trench edge north of oven 7101 |
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| Grid X: 1058.2 Grid Y: 1195.3 |
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This feature was discovered and defined during the last days of 2012's excavation. Unfortunately the southern part of it was removed before the feature as a whole was fully discovered. In plan the extent of the hearth is therefore only visible in plan for the cut (20695). During the start of this year's (2013) excavations the hearth was excavated, with trowel and planned in scale 1:10. The feature was excavated in plan.
It had a quite nice rectangular shape in plan, which was kept until the last two layers of the feature (20693-20692). Seemingly the feature was cut into a lower platform and its middle even down in the layer beneath. It consists of three make-up layers (including wall however in this discussion) and four burnt fill layers. Before each make-up being lain, the burning residue was swept away, leaving only these (almost) lenses with no material in them except burnt soil and clay, in some cases charcoal.
My interpretation is that the hearth was initially round in shape (20692, 20693) but was renewed with make-up and designed to a rectangular shape (20641 and up). The bigger walls (20639) was replastered with 20630 but maintained its rectangular shape until it was ultmately abandoned. 20633 and 20630 should in that case represent the hearth's last usage phase.
It has a relation to oven 7101 to the south, which however is not clear because of some soil being removed during 2012. Even if the oven is built probably earlier, there is however a relation visible in the trench section still. The lower platform, which this hearth was cut into, seems to have been built/lain around the oven, when still visible. In that case, at some point, they were contemporary. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| contemporary with?: (Click to view the record) 7101 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 27 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 9 (Click here to view unit list) |
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