Unit 18460

Category: Layer    dug in 2009

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Oven Levelling 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven

Discussion: Overn levelling layer / insulation material below flooring. Frequent organic inclusions - grasses used in the construction as temper, now visable as burnt out voids in the matrix. 

Recognition: below oven floors (form, texture, colour) 

Definition: clear 

Execution: trowel excavated 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: firm and friable 

Colour: dark blackish brown 

Texture: silty 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional: animal bone frags (in flotation) not retrieved, very organic components throughout fabric 

Post-depositional Features: n/a 

Basal Boundary: clear onto floors 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18463 below: (Click to view the record) 18458 

Total Deposit Volume: 14 

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:

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.

<< BackDownload this Units Data