Unit 30814

Category: Layer    dug in 2013

 

Area: TPC 

 

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Interpretive Categories: bricks, possibly from oven 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: non in-situ; Location: external; Material: brick; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Discussion: The unit consists of mudbrick, which we suspect may be related to the oven F.7181, perhaps as part of industrial operation of some sort. The unit is extremly similar in appearance to the oven F.7181 and was likewise constructed after the construction of B.121 - either after its abandonment or during the final phase of its occupation. The mudbrick extends into the edge of the trench which, to clarify, is not the wall of B.121, which is beyond the western edge of the trench. Unusually, whereas ovens have thus far been found only against the walls of buildings, these ovens were constructed in open space and placed against much older walls, whereas the unit postdates the construction of b.121, it was then truncated by the adjacent later pit (F.7189). A very small amount of pottery (1 piece) and obsidian (2 pieces) were found in the unit. In addition, some larger animal bones and many smaller animal bones were found. The maxilla of a cow was partially exposed in the wall of the trench. Small charcoal and medium plaster inclusions were also present in the unit. 

 

Consistency: friable-firm 

Colour: dark gray, brown, bricks: dark orange-red 

Texture: sandy silt 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: plaster, charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: N/A 

Basal Boundary: arbitrary 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20226 below: (Click to view the record) 30789 equal to: (Click to view the record) 30795 

 

Dry sieve volume: 90 

Total Deposit Volume: 120 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 3 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 519

Features:: (Click to view the record) 7181 (fire installation)

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

 

Lab Team Data

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2013 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 1

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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