Unit 13029
Category: Layer dug in 2006
Area: TP
Interpretive Categories: hearth
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: pise-like; Deposition: heterogeneous
Dimensions: 0.56 x 0.56 x 0.07 m
Discussion: This is a well preserved hearth placed in central part of Building 62 directly underneath younger hearth recorded as unit 13030. Hence it is an earlier version in a sequence of two hearths associated with occupation of Building 62. The hearth had two solid walls from the north and the west which were c. 0.10 m wide and c. 0.06 m high. The top part of the hearth was not easy to distinguish and in some part of construction of bottom segments of hearth recorded as unit 13030. Infill of the hearth core contained dark browne loose silty clay with a lots of charcoal. There was much less orange/redish burnt clay that constituted a dominant part of the infill of hearth recorded as unit 13030. Some kind of light plastering was observed on poorly preserved eastern wall.
The hearth was constructed on floor of Building 62 (unit 13040). A stration made of a large number of charcoal was placed directly on this floor constructing a bottom part of the hearth. This indicates that the hearth was built on some sort of burnt surface placed directly on the floor which implies reference to an earlier (pre-floor) use of this paryt of the Building markde by burnt layer underneath the floor (unit 13060). Interestingly, both western and northern walls of the hearth were built direclty on a make-up layer underneath the floor (unit 13041) and were probably put in place on the same time when the floor was constructed. This indicates that the heth was and intgegral element of the Building 62 from the very beginning of its use.
Recognition: construction, shape, colur
Definition: earlier hearth on floor of Building 62
Execution: trowel
Condition: dry, hot, windy
Consistency: friable
Colour: mid/dark grey, mid brown
Texture: silty clay
Bedding: various constructional material
Inclusions: animal bones
Post-depositional Features: none
Basal Boundary: constructional, sharp
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 6250
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 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
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