Unit 21849

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven debris 

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

Discussion: 21849 refers to one single unit that encompasses a superpositions of layers related to oven F579 destruction.
The oven is located in the north-eastern corner of space 170, it has a circularish shape (1x1.15m) and is east-west oriented. It originally had a dome superstructure. Its opening faced west, while its back faced east.
The oven was most likely lying over a platform, whose presence has been only partially recognized by this year excavation: the platform was in fact so highly eroded that it was first impossible to distinguish it from phase E floor itself and its make-up layers. Its presence was suggested by the higher elevation (1003.36) of the oven if compared to the floor in this area (1003.11), as well as by the presence of a kerb. The latter one, which was east-west oriented and 1.40 m long, was situated almost 0.55 m south from the southern wall of oven F579 and marked the southern edge of another fire installation (F580), most likely a heart connected with the use of the main oven. It is highly possible that the kerb marked the southern edge of the platform were the 2 fire installations were located.
The platform and the features associated to it were contemporary to phase E floors (21827).
The northern and southern sides of oven F579 were still partially preserved when we started this year excavation, while its eastern edge (the covering) was most entierly compromised. At the center of the oven was an amass of debris, formed of broken parts of the oven (probably the destroyed covering), clay aggregates (6-10 cm), charcoal fragments (0,5-2 cm) and a hight concentration of clay balls and stones (materials/tools related to the usage of the oven). All materials were mixed together, therefore l suppose that the oven was intentionally destroyed and its debris were used as construction material for the upper feature (phase D oven). 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: changing from: orange, yellow, white, grey, dark grey 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: layerd 

Inclusions: charcoal (5%, small), aggregates (plaster: 5%, medium) 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: constructional, very sharp, prominent, smooth form and surface, flat 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21851 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 74 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 11

Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

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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