Unit 3170

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: rendering of oven 

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

Dimensions: 0.26 m N-s x 0.12 m E-W, 0.25 mm thick 

Discussion: Thin lenses of plaster and brown clayey silt which probably signify replastering of oven F.268 although can't tell what is original redering and what is later additions.

* Later it was realised that the top of this deposit had been truncated by (3354), bin 256 levelling cut. So those layers of rendering are associated with the oven before bin was added. This unit was physically overlain with (3175) and (3162) which cover both oven and bins.

The layers of silt have phytoliths in them and maybe dung. There must be a reason that they are putting alternate layers of dung? and then plaster on oven. Maybe it gives the plaster a better key or possibly enables the plaster to react to being heated and cooled without cracking.

1 litre of dry sieved soil contaminated. Dry Sieve Information: Unclear if any dry seive, could be 2L 

Recognition: Seen in section (obliquely) in oven entrance and surface was revealed when (3175) and (3162) removed. Surface was mottled cream and mid brown. It was very difficult to follow individual layers as they merged or discontinued. 

Definition: Appears on W of oven enrance stopping at the door although extent here uncertain. It continues westwards into temporary L.O.E. for micromorphology baulk. Stops at base of oven and at top with join of bin 256. 

Execution: Leaf. Not fully excavated, some left in N/S section for micromorph. 

Condition: Under cover. 

Consistency: firm 

Colour: mixture of 2.5 Y 8/2 pale yellow and 2.5 Y 5/4 light olive brown 

Texture: clay 30% silt 70% (but really it is layers of plaster and mud) 

Bedding: compound, more or less parallell but seem discontinous, follows curve of oven structure 

Inclusions: mod. 20% white phytoliths about 8 mm long, laying along line of different lenses, mod. 10% charcoal flecks 1 mm diameter but some larger, occ. 1% salts 1mm and 2 mm diameter 

Post-depositional Features: occ. salts, truncated from above by (3354) 

Basal Boundary: anthropogenic/constructional/faint/diffuse/hard to follow interfaces/surface: slopes down steeply to N about 80%, smooth but very slight depressions 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3732 below: (Click to view the record) 3354 

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  

Lab Team Data

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