Unit 31547

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: base of fire installation 

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

Discussion: A hard-backed base U.31547 constituting the actual floor of fire installation F.7868 had been recorded as 2cm thick, dark-brown layer, encircled by the superstructure (U.31548). Worth noticing is that there was no make-up layer identified under the base (31547). Instead of that there was a thick preparation deposit (U.32065) composed of white plaster which laid directly below the base. Unfortunately, the presented unit (U.31547) was disturbed by the abandon activities as well as it was affected extensively by animal burrowing to the South. However, it is clear that the high position of the presented base in its Northern part, which overlapped the superstructure indicates the original state of the unit and its possible arrangement. Judging by the latter data one may say that the terribly truncated feature 7868 represents a free-standing (detached) oven installation. 

Consistency: firm-friable 

Colour: dark-brown, black 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: chaff imprints - 30% 

Post-depositional Features: Animal burrowings 

Basal Boundary: distinct 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32065, 31548 below: (Click to view the record) 31549 

Total Deposit Volume: 4 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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