Unit 32649

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Base+ superstructure of hearth 

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

Discussion: Earliest phase of the hearth F8170 exposed after remove the U32642. We include in the same unit the remains of the base + make-up and rim.
The base was dark brown with evident traces of burn surface. The make-up was 0.03 cm thick, orange and quite compact. The rim had the same composition as the oven superstructure, so was light orange made with salt and silt, and also were visible remains of white plaster (we took samples of everything). This rim had kind of oval shape around 0.12 cm thick and was clearly build abutting the oven’s superstructure. Anyway we think that both features were built at the same moment, because both were places on the same makeup/ preparation layer U32654. 

Consistency: Compact 

Colour: Brown (base) orange (make up). The rim was light orange 

Texture: Silt and clay the same average each. For the rim the composition had sand, 

Bedding: Massive 

Inclusions: Flecks of charcoal, and natural small stones. 

Post-depositional Features: Salts, levelling 

Basal Boundary: Very sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32654 below: (Click to view the record) 32642 

Total Deposit Volume: 35 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): IX 

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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