Unit 23254

Category: Layer    dug in 2017

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: Oven base 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: plaster; Deposition: heterogeneous

Description: This unit refers to the one and only surviving base of Oven F.7063 (S1 and S2) and to the making of this base (S3 and S4). 

Discussion: U. 23254 is the base of Oven F.7063. It was very distinct, dark brown almost black, about a centimetre thick and it survived very well in the interior of this feature. It produced some charcoal but not apropriate for radiocarbon dating.The lowest part of this base was thicker (2-3 centimetres) and it was the packing, the make up of the base. It was loose at places and at places compact, and sandy. 

Consistency: Friable 

Colour: Dark brown, black at places 

Texture: Clay on the top (base), sand at the bottom (make up of the base) 

Bedding: Layered 

Inclusions: 5 - 10% of organic remains 

Post-depositional Features: Collapse of the oven's dome on top 

Basal Boundary: Leveled, abrupt, prominent, even between base and making of base, uneven between making of base and floor. 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 20543 below: (Click to view the record) 23253 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 11 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VIII 

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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