Unit 2701
Category: layer dug in 1997
Area: South
Interpretive Categories: oven infill,oven packing
Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: re-used superstructure; Deposition: homogeneous
Dimensions: 1.10 m E-W x max 0.35 m wide in centre + min 0.12 m x 0.15 m thick
Discussion: Primarily this appears to be domestic debris derived, possibly rakeout from this FI. However, it is also very clayey and densely compacted with come fairly large (up to 7 cm long & 15 mm thick) plaster frags with very fine laminates. These are not in situ but have been mixed in with the general matrix. - possibly designed to make a more sturdy or compact fill. A the western end the pacing holds the end of a horncore, badly damaged through it latterly being used as a mole rat run which has removed any evidence of it protruding the wall face - This must have been visible in Mellaart's time as the 'shadow' in the form of a slight raised ridge survives. This could only have been produced by something sitting in-situ and it then being cleaned around. It has been muted that the base of this horn is stuck in the wall as packing material, and that no bone protruded, if this were so then the 'ridge' is an incredible coincidence. The reason we're not so clear on the sequence of these events is because this horizon was first exposed by Mellaart. This horncore is not mentioned in his texts, but the oven is on a plan of level VII. If this horncore is in-situ (which I think it is) it breaks with several of Mellaart's traditions, that of it being located on the Southern wall and by an oven and also that it is at floor level. The reason why I've gone on about this is because of the wariness of accepting this event. The unfortunate thing is that its in such a bad state after 30 years of exposure, therefore only evidence for the horncore protruding out of the southern wall is the ridge.
When excavating the eastern half of the oven the packing material was more ashy in composition and removed as (2700).
Both these 'packing' deposits have exposed make-up / levelling at the base, a good roof crust (see(2717)), to the W this roof lining is continuous to the base, the very extreme west is a plastered application (white wall / floor plaster) and is in the exact location of the horncore X1. To the east the roof plaster was good but not traced at the back, there is an animal hole which has removed much of it but also this could be due to the deposition of the packing.
Execution: trowel
Condition: sunny
Consistency: moderately loose
Colour: 10 YR 4/2 dark greyish brown
Texture: ashy clay silt
Bedding: massive
Inclusions: 3% charcoal 3mm>; plaster frags some with laminations 3%; clay frags 2% 2mm>; 5% phytoliths; 5% natural salt
Post-depositional Features: natural salting and animal burrows
Basal Boundary: clear anthropogenic packing
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of X-Finds recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 1
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): VII
Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present
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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 ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No Ceramic Records: No Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1
Unit description: This whole unit not studied yet but field notes are: A Bos horn core was built into the packing when the oven in the south wall was rebuilt. The horn core was coming out of the wall into the room, but all of this part is missing, since a rodent burrow has destroyed it and Mellaart partly exposed it. Nevertheless, the floor is raised up in the location where it appears horn would have come into room. It is a left-hand horn, with a little skull attached. The base cannot be measured, but at a point a few centimetres up corpus the greatest diameter is 137.9 mm.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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
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