Unit 4176

Category: layer    dug in 1999

 

Area: South 

 

Related Photo (Click to view larger version in new window)  Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: interface,Interface (fire base) 

 

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

 

Dimensions: 0.90m n-s by 0.80m e-w by 0.10m depth 

 

Discussion: contains areas of fire hardened clay and occasional clay ball. Appears to be a lower hardening or phase of the fire installation
all finds went to sampling
fire hardened probably associated with 4175 

 

Recognition: compact layer under 4175; fire hardened silty clay 

Definition: clear; within cut 4178 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: good; dry compact 

Consistency: firehardened silty clay 

Colour: dark reddy brown 

Texture: compact-hard 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: irregular 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4177 below: (Click to view the record) 4175 

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 7

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 2 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 6

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 163

Features:: (Click to view the record) 416 (fire installation)

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

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramic Records: No

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 6  Unit description: Flot sample 2386, >4mm, 100% Flot sample 4 (2511), >4mm, 100% Fire hardened clay, oven base from same feature as 4173 - 4177. Like the other fire installation structures this has a very small amount of bone, generally small long bone fragmenst burnt a even brown, They seem to be small fragments in the clay or in the cracks insulated from direct heat, but slow burnt at low temperatuires. They are not battered and don't seem to have come from floors or sweepings. The density is very low.

Figurine Records: No

Ground Stone Records: Yes Count of records:: 2

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

<< BackDownload this Units Data