This feature was found during the 2012 season, but will not be excavated in 2012. It is overlayered by the sp 17/18 infill, U20481. The youngest layers of this feature were badly crumbled because people have run their wheel barrows there during the entire excavation. The crushed material has been removed, but remains of these layers are still visible in the eastern trench wall.
Currently we can see three or four layers of black, smooth, hard burnt clay surfaces, separated by gray silt makeup layers which are not affected by fire to the same extent. On top are some orange clay crumbles, possibly a rest of the oven roof. There are also remains of the upper part of the oven forming a broken, 0.02 m high north edge on top of clay surface U19598. Two of the upper, burnt clay surfaces have thick ash layers on top. The entire construction is very similar to the oven in the southern wall of building 77, F3621.
Added 2013:
Ecavated in 2013.
There are a few problematic stratigraphy points in this Feature.
At first, the sloping layers from S side to N side. It's possible that they moved the rest of the ash from the central part to to the sides. Also, the central part is smashed because of high temperature.
Next. Lowest layers were more thiner than upper. It's possible that they used lthe owest burnt layers for a relatively short time period.
Next. The wall in the southern part of the Feature. It was built probably to close the area of using. Maybe they decided to use the oven to different aims or they didn't need such a big using area.
Next. Plaster can indicate that they wanted to change oven area to something else, but they changed their plans.
This Feature is different than F3621 in B77. Here is not plaster layers and layers are more irregular.
JH 09.07 2013 |
