Unit 32798

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: constr. Rim of the hearth 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: Unit # 32798 refers to the affected by the high temperature remnants of the construction/rim of the hearth F.8340. All of the collected data allow assuming that there was only one phase of use of the fire-installation. However, traces of heavy burning imply that the spot had been employed for some time during the activities undertaken prior the inhabiting the Sp.531. The desire of keeping open fire within the South-Central part of the mentioned area was preceded by the execution of an oval cut (U.32799) whose edges were coated by the silty-clay paste and as such the spot had been used for the heating/cooking purposes. The execution of the cut truncated the leveling deposit U.32761 which was dumped deliberately in order to remodel the living-space by raising the surface of the floor and rearrange the room within the new (reduced) extent. As such using of the fire-installation most plausibly took part during the preparation of the room to be dwelled 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid-orange brownish 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: distinct - underlying layer 32761 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32799 below: (Click to view the record) 32793 

Total Deposit Volume: 8 

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:

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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

Lab Team Data

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