Unit 21350

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: Infill of oven 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: This layer was interpreted as a separate unit due to it being enclosed by oven walls and superstructure. The unit was formed as the superstructure of the oven collapsed, and with time (?) layers of infill were added on. The top layer probably correlating to house infill U30123.

At the start, the unit was excavated in section, using a trowel and leaf dito. Time pressure lead to a change in tactics and the leaf trowel was replaced by a pickaxe and the section removed, as this heavily slowed down the digging proces in the cramped space of the oven. The layer is compounded by different elements, with ashy clayie silt on top and yellowish brown and massive at bottom, where more inclusions of superstructure and low temperature burnt clay was noted. Due to a dip in the top layer, with a slope in west (top) to east (bottom), the top layer rests immidiatly on bone cluster u.21504 in the eastern part.

I stopped excavating as I came across a more massive and homogenous fill, with clay balls, stone artifacts and a cluster of bones as inclusions. This is probably the last usage phase of the oven. 

Consistency: Friable at top, to massive at bottom. 

Colour: Spotted ashy grey/yellow at top, to shades of burnt clay at bottom (yellow to orange). 

Texture: Silty sand at top, silty clay at bottom. 

Bedding: Compound layered. 

Inclusions: Bits and pieces of superstructure, low temperature burnt lumps of clay. 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: Anthropogenic, very sharp, prominent, smooth, steep inverted slopes. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21370, 21504 below: (Click to view the record) 30123 

Dry sieve volume: 60 

Total Deposit Volume: 91 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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