Unit 30814
Category: Layer dug in 2013
Area: TPC
Interpretive Categories: bricks, possibly from oven
Data Category Information: In Situ: non in-situ; Location: external; Material: brick; Deposition: heterogeneous
Discussion: The unit consists of mudbrick, which we suspect may be related to the oven F.7181, perhaps as part of industrial operation of some sort. The unit is extremly similar in appearance to the oven F.7181 and was likewise constructed after the construction of B.121 - either after its abandonment or during the final phase of its occupation. The mudbrick extends into the edge of the trench which, to clarify, is not the wall of B.121, which is beyond the western edge of the trench. Unusually, whereas ovens have thus far been found only against the walls of buildings, these ovens were constructed in open space and placed against much older walls, whereas the unit postdates the construction of b.121, it was then truncated by the adjacent later pit (F.7189). A very small amount of pottery (1 piece) and obsidian (2 pieces) were found in the unit. In addition, some larger animal bones and many smaller animal bones were found. The maxilla of a cow was partially exposed in the wall of the trench. Small charcoal and medium plaster inclusions were also present in the unit.
Consistency: friable-firm
Colour: dark gray, brown, bricks: dark orange-red
Texture: sandy silt
Bedding: compound
Inclusions: plaster, charcoal
Post-depositional Features: N/A
Basal Boundary: arbitrary
Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field):
Dry sieve volume: 90
Total Deposit Volume: 120
Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 4
Number of Related Diary Entries: 0
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 2013 still to be released Clay Object Records: No Chipped Stone Records: No Conservation Recorded: No Faunal Records: Yes
Count of records:: 1 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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