Unit 6294

Category: layer    dug in 2000

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: oven floor 

Data Category Information: none

Dimensions: 0.50 x 0.44 m 

Discussion: Photo #: 2000 T4 5-9 2000 T600 14

Between E edge of F 169 and SE baulk fire installation, probably oven ( F 613) was uncovered last year. This unit continued work on it, removeing the topmost layer of oven base. This light brown deposit was esasily separarted from the underlying patches of black ( 10YR 2/1) soil which represents the lower unit. Whole unit was sprinkled with abunant inclusions of siliceous plant remains, charcoal and some ash.
Digging this unit, shape of oven comes apparent. It is roughly circular ( less ellipsoid than appears on scetches), shape delimited by a brown burnt line. Also, it appears that a row of circular stakeholes to the N is some 35-45 cm distant from the egde of the oven, with only few stakeholes closer to the oven. This raises the issue of phasing further, esp. of the relation of the oven and the surrounding orange soil (packing under floor) and floor patches. 

Recognition: colour and texture-burnt colours, firm floor 

Definition: clear outline of burnt zone 

Execution: trowelled N to S, attempted cross cutting 

Condition: dry, compact on most of the surface 

Consistency: friable to firm 

Colour: 10 YR 6/3 light brown 10 YR 2/1 black beneath it 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: plants ( small - 25 %) charcoal ( 10 % small) ash (flecks 10 %) 

Post-depositional Features: small amount of recent roots and some salts (?) 

Basal Boundary: sharp smooth anthropic/ sedimentological 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 6362 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 6

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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