Unit 18678

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: hearth fill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth

Dimensions: .43 x .31 x .04 m 

Discussion: Deposit filling plaster molding - nearly rectangular deposit of yellow-brown clay loam. Edge less apparent to eastern edge-- color was more grey in color. Layer peeled off in extremely compact sheets to reveal compact, ashy, grey brown silty clay loam layer below. 18678 was largely homogenous, with little mottling, some ash inclusions, & few artifacts. It appears to be the fill of a hearth or oven, which involved the low plaster molding south of this fill, & was likely packed tightly and deliberately.

Rectangular moulding made in floor (18679) was filled with this deposit, probably to level it as fill flush with the surrounding floor. 

Recognition: Clear cut along west edge: compact yellow-brown clay loam in rectangular conformation 

Definition: Clear along west edge-- more gray-brown toward east but still clear 

Execution: Trowel -- Came off easily in massive peds, revealing even firmer ashy clay layer below 

Condition: warm, breezy 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: yellow-brown 

Texture: clay loam, massive, flat peds 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: some charcoal , ash but mostly homogenous 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: clear , change in soil texture and colour (firm grey, mottled ashly clay loam ) 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18679 below: (Click to view the record) 18664 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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