Unit 6266

Category: layer    dug in 2000

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fire installation 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 0.45 x 0.35 m 

Discussion: Under the packing of unit 6265 this layer was found. Consisting of central patch ( 25cmx25cm) of thin veil of ash sitting on compacted yellowish floor, around which ring of much darker (brown and burnt) soil was found. Thus reveallig a depression dug into platform 169 with norrower patch of ash indicating zone of fire and burnt ring of soil around it. Probably this is representing burning reminas just above the floor hich will be dug as following unit.
The unit was truncated by another cut F. 604, a.k.a. "hole" on the sketch. Only southern edge was truncated, neverthe less indicating that this feature (fire installation F.630) predates the feature 604, which was then probably cut from a higher floor level of the platform 9f. 165).
On closer inspection "brown burnt" zone could be subdivided into ellipsoid (30 cm diam) zone of more intensly burnt soil and brownish band around it of more sub-rectangular shape 

Recognition: colour, distinctively paler 

Definition: clear discolouration and difference in texture 

Execution: trowelled 

Condition: dry compact 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: 10 YR 3/4 dark yellowish brown / 10 YR 7/1 pale grey in ashy patch 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: 10 % flecks of ash and charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: none 

Basal Boundary: sharp smooth anthropic/ sedimentological more diffuse towards edges. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): below: (Click to view the record) 6265 

Dry sieve volume: 1.7 

Total Deposit Volume: 8 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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