Unit 6270

Category: layer    dug in 2000

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: fire installation 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 0.45 x 0.30 m 

Discussion: Photo #: 2000 T014 31-35

Directly beneath the shallow scoop of 6269, yellowish brown lining/packing was found on a surrounding white floor surfaces. Towards the more shallow centre more burnt patch some 13x12 cm wide. Probably the result of a more intense temperature, being a centre of a hearth. While excavated, packing/lining was proven to be compound layered of parallel orientated lines of yellowish brown and dirty balck lines, probably representing building technique of make up. When excavated, this lining was laying on remains of white floors which were found to be sloping down towards the centre, probably indicating the existence of depression in platform before the installation of the hearth. However, this floor line seems to be damaged in the middle, and patch of very brown, burnt soil appears. It is proposed that this could be the top level of another fire installation, connected probably to pair of black lines between F 630 and F 632. An installation which is then presumably older than F 632 and it would indicate a sequence of : oldest hearth ( black lines between F 630 and F 6321 which was taken and then covered by floor which was scoping inwards) and then packed with clay lining, and only then contained dark remains of burning (u. 6269), which was all presumably covered with a younger floor plaster level (that one of U. 6275 and associated).
Finally , unit seems to extend all the way to the edge of platform, indicating deliberate opening for a rake-out channel(?). This statement is compounded by finding of ever so slightly more dark, dirty and with inclusions of charcoal and bones, zone immediately next to the channel. 

Recognition: shape and colour 

Definition: characteristic yellowish brown layer on top of white floor surfaces 

Execution: trowelled following contact with unit below 

Condition: dry compact 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: 10 YR 5/4 yellowish brown 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound layering of yellowish brown and black lenses, parallel 

Inclusions: samll 10 - 15 YR, inclusions of ash and charcoal 

Post-depositional Features: none apparent 

Basal Boundary: sharp smooth anthropic / sedimentological 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6395 below: (Click to view the record) 6269 

Dry sieve volume: 1.7 

Total Deposit Volume: 3 

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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