Unit 18682

Category: Layer    dug in 2011

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: hearth fill 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth

Dimensions: 0.40 x 0.15 m x 0.02 m 

Discussion: Area of ash from insitu burning, when initially exposed it was thought that this could be an oven but the size of the surrounding rim and lack of any superstructure suggests that a single fire was set inside edge of platform F. 3460. This scorched the sides of the platform to the east. 

Recognition: ashy fill in side of hearth 

Definition: V. clear 

Execution: leaf trowel 

Condition: hot 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: mid grey 

Texture: silty ash 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: charcoal flecks 

Post-depositional Features: - 

Basal Boundary: V. clear sharp 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 18686 below: (Click to view the record) 18681 

Total Deposit Volume: 1 

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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