Unit 32001

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: infill accumulated in the domed part of ovenF.7854 

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

Discussion: Infill U.32001 had been recorded within doomed part of the oven F.7854. The deposit covered all the back-side of the mentioned fire installation which was placed in the S-wall (F.3679) of B.132. One may state that the infill composed of the same material as had been evidenced in 2015 while exploration of the room-fill U.21654 which sealed whole the interior of Sp.531.The deposit U.32001 which might be drawn in a plan as semicircular in shape was left arbitrarily last year to prevent the domed superstructure (U.32003) and the wall F.3679 against falling down during winter season. The excavation of the unit was conducted in order to identify the whole extent of the oven F.7854 as a one of the youngest furniture within the Sp.531. The infill comprised of broken fragments of orange bricks, fragments of plastered elements and mortar that altogether were immersed within sandy-silt sediment which most plausibly accumulated in the presented spot during the process of sealing the entire main room of B.132. It appeared that below the described infill there was a layer composed of collapsed fragments of dome (U.32002). The latter may imply a sequence of intentional destruction of the oven superstructure whose remains were left to be covered afterwards by the room-fill. One must be emphasized here that there was no any blocking within the dome which again imply the use of the oven till the very end of occupation phase of the room. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid-grey (majority of sandy-silt), mid-white (plaster fragments), light-orange (broken bricks) 

Texture: dominance of sandy-silt, with clay elements 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: plaster fragments-5%, broken bricks - 10%, 

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: Distinct. Collapsed fragments of dome (U.32002). 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32002 below: (Click to view the record) 32003 equal to: (Click to view the record) 21670, 21654 

Total Deposit Volume: 14 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

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:

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

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