Unit 20045

Category: Layer    dug in 2014

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: hearth floor 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: hearth; Material: dark grey clay; Deposition: multiple

Description: Compound layer of hearth composed of very friable burnt clay with charcoal and small plaster inclusions located under superstructure u.20042, and appears to lip up onto the next superstructure layer. It is heavily burned and eroded near edge of hearth. 

Discussion: Unit was recognized under the superstructure (unit 20042) of hearth feature 3436 as it lipped up onto the sides of the hearth, as well as formed the uppermost layer of the center of the feature. It is a more friable layer than u.20042 and contains more evidence of burning and erosion. This layer may be composed of a series of packed and melted floors, but due to heat it may be impossible to separate out the individual sequence. During excavation is was determined that the layer is distinguishable and could be taken out to reveal different, ashier layers below (u.20046). 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: pale grayish brown and dark brown (burned) 

Texture: silty clay 

Bedding: compound 

Inclusions: charcoal and plaster 

Post-depositional Features: burning 

Basal Boundary: clear 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20046 below: (Click to view the record) 20042 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 11 

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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