Unit 3383

Category: layer    dug in 1998

Area: South 

Interpretive Categories: oven floor 

Data Category Information: Location: feature; Description: oven; Material: baked; Deposition: single

Discussion: Oven floor for F.268. Seems broken in N but if it is truncated it is in antiquity as deposit (3147)=(3157) overlay lip of this break (raking out of ashes). Slopes down fairly steep to W and N, probably the result of later dumping. 

Recognition: Seen in section from oven entrance last year and read in plan when fills were excavated (when oven still intact) a very hard surface was reached. Oven walls were removed and it was seen in plan (well 1/2 of it) as a grey smooth (although very finely pitted surface with occasional small cracks on it) the deposit changes below to less compacted and yellow orange. Surface slopes down to N and W. 

Definition: Within surrounds of oven. Looks broken to N but if truncated it is not known what by. 

Execution: Trowel, 1/2 sectioned. 

Condition: Dry, covered. 

Consistency: surface ?, below compact 

Colour: surface; 10 YR 6/1 grey, below; 10 YR 6/4 light yellowish brown 

Texture: coarse sand 30%, burnt clay 10% 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: phytoliths and voids of phytoliths 20 %, salts <3 mm 5% and 1% salt concretes hollow tube shaped objects <3 mm long, possibly salt concreted insect burrow? 

Post-depositional Features: burnt surface, salts 

Basal Boundary: surface; anthropogenic/anbrupt/very slight pitting and occasional small cracks but generally smooth and even/slopes down to E and N, basal boundar; abrupt/smooth/anthropogenic/curving up at E about 45 degrees but rounded corner 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 3606 below: (Click to view the record) 3171 

Dry sieve volume: 0 

Total Deposit Volume: 0 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 10

Number of Related Diary Entries: 1

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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