Unit 32018

Category: Layer    dug in 2016

Area: North 

Interpretive Categories: oven make-up 

Data Category Information: In Situ: in situ; Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: pise-like; Deposition: homogeneous

Discussion: A layer (U.32018) of silty-clay affected partially by high temperature, had been recorded below the whole area covered before by the oven (F.7854). Worth noticing is that its extent was bigger than identified before base (31570) of the mentioned fire installation. The layer had been exposed firstly after exploration of make-up U.32012 in central part of the mentioned oven. However, the full scope of the unit had been revealed after taking out the superstructure (31569) of later construction phase of the fire installation. The latter notion implies, that the activities related with keeping the fire, which distinctively effected on the deposit U.32018, must have been restricted by a bigger superstructure which did not survive and definitely not with U.31569.
Taking the collected data and on-field observations into account, the presented deposit U.32018 must be regarded as the only remains belonged to the earliest phase of use of the oven (7854) whose original construction and extent cannot be defined. The latter notion refers in particular to the fire proceedings that took place under bigger superstructure (than U.31569). As such, the unit 32018 probably played a role of make-up on top of whom a base was set. The base unfortunately had been also removed at some point of the exploitation of fire installation leaving only the layer (U.32018), on top of whom burned patches marked the deep penetration of the high temperature. The evoked above activities involving remove the base, remain unclear. However, during the demolition also domed-superstructure must have been destroyed. And afterwards smaller one (31569) had been built on top of the presented make-up (U.32018).
Intriguing is the fact that the re-enactment of the oven (marked by the setting superstructure U.31569) must have been preceded by an interval in employing the spot as the fire installation locale. The assessment is based on the evidence of partially preserved trampled activity surface (32023) that covered (smudged) North-Eastern part of the make-up layer (32018). 

Consistency: friable 

Colour: dark-brown - in upper part due to penetration of high tempoerature, mid-grey in lower part of the unit 

Texture: silty-clay 

Bedding: massive, however the burned (upper) part was crumbled. 

Inclusions:  

Post-depositional Features:  

Basal Boundary: distinct - the layer laid on top of a firm clayish preparation layer U.32024 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 32024 below: (Click to view the record) 32012 

Total Deposit Volume: 5 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

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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