Unit 4962

Category: layer    dug in 1999

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven bases 

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

Dimensions: 0.27m (E-W), 0.33m (N-S), 0.06m deep 

Discussion: 4962 was made up of the two earlier oven bases of F534, both of which were covered with a thin skim of ash. They were thicker and more burnt than the later oven bases (4960), and baked to a hard yellow crust at the centre but were otherwise very similar. They represent the earliest use of oven F534 and are probably contemporary to someof the floors contained in unit 4978. 

Consistency: friable, but baked hard on the upper surface 

Colour: deep reddish-brown beneath, with a baked orange surface, covered with a skim of pale grey ash 

Texture: silt 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: flecks of charcoal, burnt clay, ash, plaster, shell and obsidian 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sharp and distinct, sloping steeply on all sides to form a bowl-like shape 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 4964 below: (Click to view the record) 4960 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): X 

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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