Unit 21867

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven floor 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked

Description: Base and make up for an oven 

Discussion: 21867 refers to the earlier floor until now exposed of oven F579, which is located in the north-eastern corner of sp. 170.
The floor, which is covered by an overlying floor (21865) and is cut by a pit (21870: cut; 21866 infill) filled with fragmented clay balls and stones has not been excavated yet, due to the sudden end of this year campaign. Its surface shows clear signs of burning activity. The neat structural distinction between the frontal part of the oven, where the pit with the clay balls+stones is located, and the inner part, wich is a flat surface, might be explained by the contemporary use of different cooking techniques, maybe related to the preparation of specific types of food. Further analyses by the lab. people will surely help to better understand this distinction.

Unit exposed in 2016 and excavate in 2017, that refers the earlier floor exposed of oven F579, we remove with the same unite the base and the make-up.
The base had clear signs of burn activity, was very thin less than 1 cm and had and orange-green color. Below that, we documented the make-up, that was brown orange, pretty compact and between 0.3 and 0.5 m thick. Below that we exposed the remains of the platform, and also a kind of foundation for the oven superstructure (U21881) (CB- 07/05/2017)
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Consistency: Compact 

Colour: Dark brown (base) and more orange the make-up 

Texture: Clay and silt 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Flecks of charcoal 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: Constructional, sharp and smooth 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 21878, 21881 below: (Click to view the record) 21865 

Total Deposit Volume: 26 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

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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