Unit 3147

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: fire debris 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: occupation; Deposition: multiple

Dimensions: 20 mm thick 

Discussion: It is quite crucial whether (3157) is same as (3147) and (2820). Firstly because it ties in the sequence of oven deposits with the stratigraphy outside and secondly as it insinuates the ashes from the oven have been raked out.

Possibly this is fire debris from the last use of the oven as it is directly on top of hardened floor (3383).

(2820) looks from plan as it was continous with (3147) but the area has been cleaned so many times it was probably eroded with trowelling.

Northen half completely archive sampled 51 except for 52 for chemical analysis, southern half when rest of 1/2 section was taken out was flotation sampled 53. 

Recognition: Very dark grey loose charcoal deposit beneath (2843), completely different composition from above layer. 

Definition: Very patchy but seems to be all one deposit. It was fairly loose and some came out when layer above excavated. Abutts walls of oven in some places. To N a small patch overlies oven floor where it is broken through (by what?) and layers beneath oven, this given separate no. (3157). Although touching rest of deposit it is quite tenous that is join up. ??? However I'm pretty sure it is the same deposit by look/feel of it. In NW corner it also overlies break in oven floor but this area left in temporary section for Wendy. 

Execution: Leaf 1/2 section. 

Condition: Dry, under cover with difficulty seeing as oven walls still intact. Surface: slightly uneven, anthropogenic, sloping down from centre to W following surface of floor and at E near edge of oven floor. Slopes down to N over break in floor to layers beneath in NW. 

Consistency: loose 

Colour: 10 YR 4/2 dark greyish brown but with frequent black fleets 

Texture: ash 90%, silt 10% 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: frequent 50% charcoal frags up to 15 mm but mostly smaller, moderate salt flecks 10% 1 mm diameter, 5% flecks 1 mm diameter of burnt plaster/silt orange, more frequent in some areas. 

Post-depositional Features: salt formations 

Basal Boundary: sharp/flat/anthropogenic/sloping down to west 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 2832, 3626, 3171 below: (Click to view the record) 3389 equal to: (Click to view the record) 3147, 3157, 2820, 2799 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 5

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space):  

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Finds Room Information:

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Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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