Unit 3162

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: plaster rendering 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: plaster; Deposition: layered (wall plaster)

Dimensions: 0.24 m N-S x 1.14 m E-W, thickness 30 mm 

Discussion: Plaster rendering covering front of oven entrance and N face of bin wall F.257. Easy to detect boundary base in E but in W of oven entrance I have probably taken off more than one layer. One obsidian flake and one small fragment of bone found at interface of this and layer beneath, both lying flat.

Small section left in situ until micromorphology sample taken. This is in the W running N/S (section 98-422). This deposit is thicker and around entrance to oven and very thin to W. It abutts bin wall deposits ie (3176) and (3186) and overlies (3175) in W, of which seals join of oven and rebuild ofit (for 256). This suggests that both bin 257 and oven 268 and possibly bin 256 were in use at the same time for some of their life and they are all partially rendered with the same plaster. If oven 268 was out of use at this time it would be expected that the front of the oven entrance would be plastered over possibly. Abutts W wall 93 and seems to spread along it slighlty but impossible to tell as so many different plaster layers in this area, especially because of root action along line of wall (see sketch top right hand side). 

Recognition: Visible as a cream coloured material along front of oven F.268 and around its entrance and continuing running along N wall of bin F.257. 

Definition: Abutts W wall 93 and covers N end of F.268 and W half on N wall of bin 257. 

Execution: Leaf, not fully excavated. 

Condition: Dry, under cover. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: 2.5 Y 7/3 pale yellow 

Texture: silt 40% clay 60% (limey) very smooth ? but no plasticity 

Bedding: probably layered from looking at direction of salts/phytoliths but difficult to see, parallell 

Inclusions: 5% salts up to 2 mm, 5% phytolith, 5% grey brown silt lenses in west, >2% charcoal flecks, >1% burnt clay/silt fragments <1 mm diameter 

Post-depositional Features: occasional root action, salts 

Basal Boundary: constructional/anthropogenic/distinct to faint contrast form/broken/general very sharp slope down to N/surface below slightly pitted/in centre overlies concentration of phytolith/surface of 3162 smooth and sloping + where it meets wall 93 in west it rises up for about 0.01 m 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3175 below: (Click to view the record) 1873, 2322, 2329, 2088, 2341, 2330 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 3

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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X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

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