Unit 18983

Category: Layer    dug in 2010

 

Area: South 

 

Site Sketch: Click here to open in a new window 

Interpretive Categories: hearth render 

 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: hearth; Deposition: heterogeneous

 

Discussion: Upper render or hearth plaster scorched through use, unexcavated 2010.

2013:
We recognized this unit, because the hearth has already a separate unit number from 2010 (RR excavation). Hearth laid in space 135 in southern area of B. 80. It was formed by human activity and include clay, burnt clay, charcoral and plaster on top of the rough edges. It seems to be heterogeneous. This layer was friable and compact on the edges and sloped to the buttom. We found shell and burnt animal bone. 

 

Consistency: Friable, strong/compact of the edges 

Colour: light gray, brown, orange, white (edges) 

Texture: ashy clay 

Bedding: compound layered 

Inclusions: burnt clay, clay, organic remains/shell 

Post-depositional Features: burning 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/constructional/rough 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20023 below: (Click to view the record) 18941 

 

Dry sieve volume:

Total Deposit Volume: 13 

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 

Related Photos: 6 (Opens as a group in a new window) 
Buildings: (Click to view the record)

80 
Spaces: (Click to view the record)

135 
Features:: (Click to view the record)

3436 (fire installation)
 

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 2010 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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