Unit 30014
Category: Layer dug in 2015
Area: North
Interpretive Categories: 3rd baked oven floor and make-up
Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: composite (floors/bedding/plaster/packing/occupation)
Discussion: Baked floor showing clear signs of intense rubefaction (bright orange colour, baked and crumby consistency). Gypsum nodules are visible in the contact between the floor and the make-up. The boundary between this unit and the base of the oven below it is marked by a thin (0.1-0.2cm) lamination of calcitic ashes and disaggregated phytoliths.
Consistency: Soft
Colour: Orangish brown (floor) / Light brown (make-up)
Texture: Silty clay loam
Bedding: Compound layered: floor (2 cm) and make-up (1cm)
Inclusions: Calcitic ashes (bottom, contact with base of oven, very abundant), microcharcoal (2% abundance)
Post-depositional Features: Severely bioturbated by burrowing, gypsum reprecipitation
Basal Boundary: Sharp, prominent, smooth, constructional
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 0
Total Deposit Volume: 0
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 1
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
Settlement Phase:
Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present
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 Ceramics Data for 2015 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 recordsPhytolith Sample: No
Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samplesDownload this Units Data
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