Unit 32065

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: preparation layer 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: plaster; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: unpainted

Discussion: A thick 6cm layer of massive, homogenous plaster (U.32065) was recorded directly beneath the hard-backed base (U.31547) of detached oven F.7868. The fire installation was placed in South-Western segment of Sp.531. The plaster was recognized as mid-white deposit composed of clay - tempered densely by organic material (chaff). It was set directly on the top surface of one of the plastered floor without a cut. On the top surface of the unit there were evidenced clear traces of burning which was caused by high temperature and the fire kept in the above oven.
Intriguing is however that for the construction of the feature there was decided to use white plaster material that was encircled by lower part of superstructure (U.31548). It seems that the construction of the oven had been planned and both of the building materials (brownish Superstructure 31548 and white Plaster 32065) in the form of pastes they were prepared to use in purpose on the spot. Mutual overlapping that was evidenced between both of the units imply single deliberate constructional episode. Nevertheless, the plaster was exclusively reserved to the central (internal-core) part of the oven and on top of it there was set base of the fire installation. 

Consistency: firm , friable 

Colour: mid-white 

Texture: clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: chaff - 30 % 

Post-depositional Features: extensive animal burrowings causing demolition of the unit 

Basal Boundary: distiunct - underlying plaster of floor 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32068, 32071 below: (Click to view the record) 31547 

Total Deposit Volume: 10 

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  

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