Unit 12914

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: Fill 

 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Discussion: Area of soft red brown material representing an insitu area of burning probibly a hearth of fire. The depth of the deposit sugests a high temperature and/or repeated firing. Recorded as being within cut [12915] however the matreial is in fact same as surrounding deposit but has been subjected to high temperature and discoloured and degraded.

Above infill of B60, in the same location as the B60 hearth, this could represent another building was above but has been completely removed/truncated. (MWH 2010) 

 

Recognition: Soft and burnt red colour 

Definition: well defined 

Execution: trowel 

Condition: dry, under cover 

Consistency: soft 

Colour: red brown 

Texture: clay silt 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: mod - grit 

Post-depositional Features: some rooting 

Basal Boundary: abrupt, smooth 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12915 below:plus

 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 58 

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 

Related Photos: 5 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: none

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 1003

Features:: none

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

Ceramics Data for 2006 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: No

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

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

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