Unit 32844

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: TPC 

Interpretive Categories: burnt layer on oven floor 

Data Category Information: Description: fire spots (non-structured); Deposition: heterogeneous

Discussion: Distinctive rich in charcoal unit lying on to of ovenF8295 floor U30898. Very friable and patchy, at least in the excavated part. Only N part of the unit was excavated as the oven was either cut into wall F7176, or the wall was built over and around the closed oven. It has been decided to excavate the oven first in order to obtain datable material from it. 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: dark grey with abundance of black coal lumps 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: abundance of black charcoal lumps 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrows 

Basal Boundary: sharp anthropogenic (overlying oven floor) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 30898 below: (Click to view the record) 32839 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

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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